Amazons of the avant-garde
Subtitle: Alexandra Exter ... [et al.]
By: edited by John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt.
Contributors: Bowlt, John E.; Drutt, Matthew.; Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum; Thames & Hudson
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Women artists -- Russia (Federation) -- Exhibitions; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art, Russian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Some of the most outstanding exhibitions organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have been those that have presented the art of the Russian avant-garde. In Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova the work o six legendary Russian women artists is poignantly explored, offering a refreshing look at this important period of art. Celebrating the vital role that each artist played in the formation of the radical art of the Russian avant-garde, the book looks at the evolution of the Russian painting from the 1900's through the early 1920's. It brings together the brilliant masterpieces of the period, including many that have not been in the West since they were created. The work of these pioneering women artists is expressed as tremendously influential in the world of the Russian avant-garde and important in capturing the Modernist as a whole.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-365).
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, July 10-Oct. 17, 1999, and other places.
Table of contents: title: Alexandra Exter; title: Natalia Goncharova; title: Liubov Popova; title: Olga Rozanova; title: Varvara Stepanova; title: Nadezhda Udaltsova.