The Avant-Garde Museum
By: editors: Agnieszka Pindera, Jaroslaw Suchan
Contributors: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi
Publisher: Muzeum Sztuki; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Lodz; Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 605
ISBN-13: 9783960989479; 9788366696051
Subjects: Museum exhibits; Catalogs; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); History and criticism
Description: "The publication contains texts devoted to four important avant-garde museum projects: the network of Museums of Artistic Culture established after the October Revolution in Russia, Kabinett der Abstractten designed by EI Lissitzki for the Hanoverian Provinzialmuseum in 1927, Société Anonyme established in New York in the early 1920s and the International Collection Modern Art by the ar group , made available to the public in 1931 at the City Museum in Łódź, today's Museum of Art. Critical studies by outstanding researchers dealing with the history of the avant-garde are accompanied by a selection of source texts and a rich iconography presenting both archival materials and selected works from collections related to the projects in question."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-605) and index.

"A publication accompanying the exhibition The Avant -Garde Museum" at the Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, October 15, 2021 - February 27, 2022.
Table of contents: title: ESSAYS: The Avant-Garde Museum / Jarosław Suchan; title: Futurist Museology / Maria Gough; title: Museums of Artistic Culture in Russia and Władysław Strezemiński / Masha Chlenova; title: Sensational Pedagogy: El Lissitzky&#x2019;s Demonstration Rooms as Precursors to the Contemporary Museum Experience / Sandra Karina Löschke; title: Why Have Art Museums? Alexander Dorner, El Lissitzky, and the Dimensions of History / Rebecca Uchill; title: A Museum Without Walls, for Artists, by Artists: The Société Anonyme / Frauke V. Josenhans; title: Bachelor Modernism: On the Société Anonyme&#x2019;s International Exhibitions of Modern Art, 1926 / group o.k. (J. Myers and J. Szupińska); title: Alike and Yet So Different: The Artists&#x2019; Museum, Société Anonyme, Inc., and Alfred Barr&#x2019;s Museum of Modern Art / Jennifer R. Gross; title: The Fine Art of Self-Institutionalization / Agnieszka Pindera; title: Developing a Narrative of Modern Art: On the History of a Certain Concept / Daniel Muzyczuk; title: Art as an Agent of Modernization: Władysław Strezemiński&#x2019;s Double Politics of Social Change and the Museum of Artistic Culture / Tomasz Załuski; title: The Kabinett der Abstrakten and the Neoplastic Room: Avant-Garde Approaches to Permanent Museum Exhibitions / Marcin Szeląg; title: SOURCE TEXTS: Declaration of the Department of Fine Arts and Art Industry on the Principles of Museology, adopted by the Board of the Department at the meeting on February 7, 1919; title: The Museum of Artistic Culture / David Shterenberg; title: Our Tasks: The Axis of Color and Volume / Kazimir Malevich; title: The Museum of Painterly Culture / Wassily Kandinsky; title: On the Museum Bureau / Aleksandr Rodczenko; title: Proun Room / EI Lissitzky; title: 2 Showrooms / EI Lissitzky; title: Its Why & Its Wherefore / Société Anonyme; title: Regarding Modern Art / Katherine S. Dreier; title: Bulletin of the a.r. group no. 1; title: Preface / Przecław Smolik; title: The Museum / Władysław Strzemiński (?); title: CATALOG.