Main entry:

Grosse Utopie. English.

Title & Author:

The great utopia : the Russian and Soviet avant-garde, 1915-1932 / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [and others].

Publication:

New York : Guggenheim Museum : Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, ©1992.

Description:

xv, 732 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Many contributions translated from Russian; one contribution translated from German.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Mar. 1-May 10, 1992; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, June 5-Aug. 23, 1992, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Sept. 25-Dec. 15, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kazimir Malevich -- Ivan Klivn -- Vera Pestel -- Samuli Adlivankin -- Ivan Puni -- Aleksei Morgunov -- Mikhail Men'kov -- Nadezhoa Udal'tsova -- Ol'ga Rozanova -- Aleksandra Ekster -- Liubov' Popova -- Aleksandr Vesnin -- Vladimir Tatlin -- Vladimir Boranov-Rossine -- Sopia Dymshits-Tolstaia -- Sergei Sen'kin -- Vladimir Lebedev -- David Zagoskin -- Wladystaw Strzemińsky -- Valentin Lustitskii -- Vasilii Ermilov -- Aleksandr Rodchenko -- Aleksei Kruchenykh -- Varvara Stepanova -- Vladimir Kozlinkskii -- Natan Al'tman -- Gustav Klutsis -- Antonina Sofronova -- Vera Ermolaeva -- Ivan Kudriashev -- El Lissitzky -- Nikolai Kolli -- Ll'ia Chashnik -- Alexander Tseitlin -- Niolai Suetin -- Nina Kogan.
Varvara Rukavishnikova -- Irina Rozhdestvenskaia -- Lev Ludin -- Lev Tsiperon -- Ivan Gavris -- Khaia(Anna) Kagan Vasilii Kandinskii -- Vladimir Stenberg -- Konstantin Medunetskii -- Karl Loganson -- Boris Koroler -- Alkesei Babicher -- Alexandr Drevin -- Liubov' Popova -- Georgii Stenberg -- Katarzyna Kobro -- Antoine Persner -- Naum Gabo -- Elena Afanas'eva -- Mikhail Matiushin -- Boris Ender -- Mariia Ender -- Kseniia Ender -- Pavel Mansurov -- Pavel Filonov -- Mikhail Plaksin -- Aleksandr Labs -- Kliment Red'ko -- Sergei Luchishkin -- Alexandr Tyshler -- Konstantin Vialov -- solomon Nikritin -- Aleksandr Deineka -- Vladimir Liushin -- Lurii Pimnov -- Petr Vilíams -- vladimir Sterligov -- Konstantin Rozhdestvenskii -- Anna Leporskaia.
Mikhail Veksler -- Nikolai Prusakov -- Aleksei Gan -- Anton Lavinskii -- Valentina Kulagina -- Natal'lja Pinus -- D. Bulanov -- Vasihi Elkin -- Brigade KGK-3 -- Nikolai Dolgorokov -- Boris Ignatorich -- Georgii Petrusov -- Georgii Zimin -- Elizar Langman -- Georgii Zel'ma -- Ekaterina Zernova -- Maks Al'pert -- Arkadii Shaikhet -- Ol'ga Chichagova -- Galina chichagova -- Mechislav Dobrokovskii -- Solomon Telingater -- Nikolai Sedel'nikov -- Aleksei Sotnikov -- Pavel Kozhin -- Nikolai Lapshin -- Nadezhda Pashchinskaia-Maksimova -- Trifon Podriabinnikov -- Livdmila Protopopova -- Evgeniia Leneva -- Liudmila Maiakovskaia -- Sergei Burglin -- Dina Lekhtman-Zaslavskaia -- Vera Loseva -- Zinaida Belevich -- Sarra Buntsis -- Raisa Matveeva -- Mariia Vasil'eva.
Maria Nazarevskaia -- Vadim Meller -- Georgii Lakulov -- Anatolii Petritskii -- Valentina Khodasevich -- Tat'iana Bruni -- Georgii Korshikov -- Aleksandr Sashin -- Nikolai Ladovskii -- Vladimir Krinskii -- vladimir Fidman -- Nikolai Istselenov -- Iakon Chernikhov -- Iosif Chaikov -- Ivan Lamtsov -- Lidiia Komarova -- Leonid Vesnin -- Viktor Vesnin -- Konstantin Mel'nikov -- Il'ia Goldsov -- Georgii Krutikov -- Aleksandr Nikol'skii -- N. Miturich -- A. Detelin -- D. Savitskii -- Ivan Bel'dovskii -- Vladimir Gal'perin -- Aceksandr Krestin -- Aceksandr Krestin -- Nikolai Sokolov -- Petr Sokolov -- Panteleimon Goldsov -- Ivan Leonidov -- Nikolai Beseda -- Vitalii Lavrov -- Valentin Popov -- Moisei Ginzburg -- Gustav Hassenpflug -- Solomon Lisagor.

Summary:

"During the years 1915-32, Moscow and Petrograd (from 1924, Leningrad) witnessed revolutions in art and politics that changed the course of Modernist art and modern history. Though the great revolution in art - the radical formal innovations constituted by Vladimir Tatlins "material assemblages" and Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism - in fact precede the political revolution by several years, the full weight of the new expressive possibilities was felt only after, and to a large extent because of the social upheavals of February and October 1917. As avant-garde artists, armed with new insights into form and materials, sought to realize the utopian aims of the Bolshevik Revolution, art and life seemed to merge."
"In this volume, which accompanies the largest exhibition ever mounted at the Guggenheim Museum, twenty-one essays by eminent scholars from Germany, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States explore the activity of the Russian and Soviet avant-garde in all its diversity and complexity. These essays trace the work of Malevich's Unovis (Affirmers of the New Art) collective in Vitebsk, which introduced Suprematism's all-encompassing geometries into the design of textiles, ceramics, and indeed whole environments; the postrevolutionary reform of art education and the creation of Moscow's Vkhutemas (Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops), where the formal and analytical principles of the avant-garde were the basis of instruction; the debates over a "proletarian art" and the transition to Constructivism, "production art," and the "artist-constructor"; the organization of new artist-administered "museums of artistic culture"; the "third path" in non-objective art taken by Mikhail Larionov; the return to figuration in the mid-1920s by the young artists - and former students of the avant-garde - in Ost (the Society of Easel Painters); the debates among photographers, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, on the superiority of the fragmented or continuous image as a representation of the new socialist reality; book, porcelain, fabric, and stage design; and the evolution of a new architecture, from the experimental projects of Zhivskul'ptarkh (the Synthesis of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture Commission) to the multistage competition, in 1931-32, for the Palace of Soviets, which "proved" the inapplicability of a Modernist architecture to the Bolshevik Party's aspirations."
"More than seven hundred of the finest examples of Russian and Soviet avant-garde art are reproduced here in full color. Drawn from public and private collections worldwide - notably, from Baku, Kiev, Moscow, Riga, Samara, St. Petersburg, and Tashkent in the former Soviet Union - these works are by such masters as Natan Al'tman, Il'ia Chashnik, Aleksandra Ekster, Gustav Klutsis, El Lissitzky, Liubov' Popova, Ol'ga Rozanova, Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg, and the Vesnin brothers."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0892070951
9780892070954
0810968681
9780810968684
089207096X
9780892070961

Subject:

Art, Russian 20th century Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia (Federation) History 20th century Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Soviet Union History.
Arts Soviet Union.
Avant-garde (Esthétique) URSS Histoire.
Avant-garde (Esthétique) Russie Histoire.
Arts Russie 20e siècle.
Arts URSS.
Art russe 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, Russian
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Soviet Union
Russia (Federation)
Art, Russian 20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia (Federation) History 20th century

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 75116
Call No.: ID N6988.G73 REF; ID:92-B2430
Status: Available