Title: The Avant-garde frontier : Russia meets the West, 1910-1930 /
Authors: Roman, Gail Harrison.; Marquardt, Virginia Carol Hagelstein.
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Art, Russian.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia (Federation) History; Art, Modern Russia (Federation); Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia (Federation) History Influence.
Abstract: Contributors to this volume examine avant-garde developments in art, architecture and design in relation to literature, philosophy and politics in Russia from 1910 to 1930. They explore in depth some of the complex associations between the avant-garde in Russia and in the West.
Contents: The impact of the Ballets Russes on design in the West, 1909-1914 / Charles S. Mayer -- Tatlin's Tower : revolutionary symbol and aesthetic / Gail Harrison Roman -- Environments of propaganda : Russian and Soviet expositions and pavilions in the West / Myroslava M. Mudrak and Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt -- OSA's 1927 exhibition of contemporary architecture : Russia and the West meet in Moscow / K. Paul Zuygas -- Malevich and Mondrian : nonobjective form as the expression of the "Absolute" / Magdalena Dabrowski --Photomontage and its audience : El Lissitzky meets Berlin Dada / K. Michael Hays -- The VKhKUTEMAS and the Bauhaus / Christina Lodder -- Louis Lozowick : an American's assimilation of Russian avant-garde art of the 1920s / Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt.