The Russian avant-garde
Subtitle: Siberia and the East : Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 27 September 2013-19 January 2014
By: curated by John E. Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler, Evgenija Petrova ; art director, Marcello Francone ; editorial coordination, Vincenza Russo
Contributors: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy); Bowlt, John E., editor; Misler, Nicoletta, 1946- editor; Petrova, E. N., editor; Francone, Marcello, art director; Russo, Vincenza, editor; Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy); Francone, Marcello, 1959- art director
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Skira; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Milano, Itally
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9788857221519; 9788857219165
Subjects: Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Exhibitions; History; Russian Art; Asian influences
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Sept. 27, 2013-Jan. 19, 2014.

On cover: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-[319]).
Table of contents: title: Fire and ice  -- John E. Bowlt, -- Nicoletta Misler, -- Evgenia Petrova; title: The east and Russian culture  -- Aldo Ferrari; title: Endogenous and exogenous: appropriations and explosions in Russia's visual culture  -- Silvia Burini; title: A profound and endless space  -- John E. Bowlt; title: Bringing Asia to the halls of the winter palace  -- Ol'ga Sosnina; title: "A miraculous harmony of colours." Russian artists and the east  -- Elena Terkel'; title: Russian artists discover the boundless spaces of Siberia and the Orient  -- Evgenia Petrova; title: Russian expeditions to Siberia  -- Valentina Gorbacheva; title: China, Tibet, Mongolia, Russia: a white Tara for the Crown Prince of all Russia. Buddhism and shamanism in ceremonial objects  -- Marina Romanova; title: The smaller shamanic idols of the peoples of Siberia  -- Tat'iana Sem; title: A passion for the east: collections of the Orientalia in St. Petersburg in the early twentieth century  -- Adele Di Ruocco; title: Two views - one war. Lubki from the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War  -- Elena Barkhatova; title: Theosophy, Hinduism and shamanism in the Russian silver age  -- Kirill Gavrilin; title: Idols of stone, idols of the forest, idols of the moon: prehistoric and primitive sources of the Russian Avant-garde  -- Nicoletta Misler; title: Mikhail Larionov, Natal'ia Goncharova: turning to the east  -- Evgenia Iliukhina; title: Legends of the new east: the artists of Central Asia  -- Ekaterina Ermakova; title: "The Fantastic Tavern" and other caucasion stories -- Maria Tsantsanoglou-- Works.