Machine generated contents note: 5.4. Facing up to new realities: Dobychina. 1.1. Klavdia Mikhailova -- 1.2. Nadezhda Dobychina -- ch. 2 Launching the Gallery Business -- 2.1. An emerging art market in the Russian capital -- 2.2. The foundation of Dobychina's Art Bureau -- 2.3. Artistic life in Moscow in the 1910s -- 2.4. The opening of Mikhailova's Art Salon -- ch. 3 From Convention to Hooliganism -- 3.1. The opening season of 1912 -- 13 in Mikhailova's Art Salon -- 3.2. Nadezhda Dobychina: the Russian `Durand-Ruel in a skirt' -- 3.3. The Art Salon's second season: on the verge of an international cataclysm -- 3.4. Breaking the ice: Natalia Goncharova's exhibition at Dobychina's Art Bureau -- ch. 4 `Who has time for art now, when human life is in danger?' -- 4.1. Mikhailova's shattered plans -- 4.2. The Art Salon in wartime -- 4.3. Dobychina's Art Bureau and exhibitions in Petrograd during the First World War -- ch. 5 Last act: the beginning of the end -- 5.1. A storm approaching: the 1916 -- 17 season at the Art Salon -- 5.2. Dobychina's Art Bureau in the revolutionary 1917 -- 5.3. The Art Salon after the October Revolution: the closing chapter -- 5.4. Facing up to new realities: Dobychina.
Summary:
In early 1910s, two pioneering women entrepreneurs, Nadezhda Dobychina in St Petersburg and Klavdia Mikhailova in Moscow set up two of the first art galleries in Russia. Skilfully balancing current art market trends and daring avant-garde experimentations, Dobychina and Mikhailova soon transformed their establishments into vibrant centres of Russian artistic life. Their exhibitions of well-established national and international artists attracted enthusiastic crowds and won acclaim from leading art critics. They did not hesitate to engage in more provocative ventures, including the controversial Goncharova retrospectives in 1914, which for the first time put on view over 500 cutting-edge avant-garde works, and the famous 0.10 exhibition of 1915 at Dobychina's Art Bureau in St. Petersburg, where Malevich's famous Black Square was displayed for the very first time. Based on previously unpublished archival materials and illustrations, this book will tell the story of the lives and adventures of these two remarkable women. Operating in a predominantly man's world, they focussed on discovering and promoting those Russian artists who later went on to become major figures in the history of world modernism.
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