Chagall to Malevich : the Russian avant-gardes / a cooperation between the Albertina, Vienna and the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg ; edited by Evgenia Petrova and Klaus Albrecht Schroder ; with essays by Helmut Altrichter ... [and four more] ; and further contributions by Tamara Chudinovskaya ... [and 11 more].
Publisher:
Palace Editions in cooperation with Hirmer Verlag,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
Catalog of an exhibition held at Albertina, Vienna, February 26-June 26, 2016. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
140 masterpieces of painting demonstrate the parallel development of widely different styles, design principles and aesthetic ideas. The avant-garde artists influenced each other and were sometimes in conflict with each other. At the same time you could find advocates of representational Expressionism and supporters of pure abstraction; styles like Primitivism, Cubo-Futurism and Suprematism followed each other in succession. Surprising contrasts of works visualize the differences, so that the successive conflicting -isms are clearly demonstrated. Through this visual confrontation the picture of all the many different forms of Russian avant-garde come alive. With works by Altman,Chagall, Exter, Gontscharowa, Griogorijew, Kandinsky, Larionow, Lissitzky, Malewitsch, Petrow-Wodkin, Popowa, Rodtschenko and many ohters.
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