Title & Author:

Revoliutsiia! demonstratsiia! : Soviet art put to the test / edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky and Devin Fore ; with contributions by Yve-Alain Bois, Masha Chlenova, Devin Fore, Maria Gough, Christina Kiaer, Kristin Romberg, Kathleen Tahk, and Barbara Wurm.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Art Institute of Chicago, [2017]
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

Description:

324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at V-A-C Foundation, Venice, May 13-August 25, 2017, and at The Art Institute of Chicago, October 29, 2017-January 14, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316) and index.
Foreword / James Rondeau -- Acknowledgments / Matthew S. Witkovsky -- Note to the reader -- Introduction / Devin Fore ; Matthew S. Witkovsky -- Battleground / Kathleen Tahk -- School / Yve-Alain Bois -- Press / Maria Gough -- Theater / Masha Chlenova -- Home storefront / Christina Kiaer -- Factory / Barbara Wurm -- Festival / Kristin Romberg -- Exhibition / Maria Gough -- Demonstration / Devin Fore -- Checklist -- Bibliography / Kathleen Tahk -- Index -- Photography credits.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it, and how the images incorporated and conveyed Soviet values. More than 350 works are grouped into areas of critical importance for the production, reception, and circulation of early Soviet art: battlegrounds, schools, theaters, the press, storefronts, exhibitions, factories, festivals, and homes. Paintings by El Lissitzky and Liubov Popova are joined by sculptures, costumes and textiles, decorative arts, architectural models, books, magazines, films, and more. Also included are rare and important artifacts, among them a selection of illustrated children's notes by Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, as well as reproductions of key exhibition spaces such as the legendary Obmokhu (Constructivist) exhibition in 1921; Aleksandr Rodchenko's Workers Club in 1925; and a Radio-Orator kiosk for live, projected, and printed propaganda designed by Gustav Klutsis in 1922. Bountifully illustrated, this book offers an unprecedented, cross-disciplinary analysis of two momentous decades of Soviet visual culture"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780300225716 (hardback)
0300225717 (hardback)
9780865592872 (softcover)
086559287X (softcover)

Subject:

Art, Soviet Exhibitions.
Art and society Soviet Union Exhibitions.
Illustrated books.
Art soviétique Expositions.
Art et société URSS Expositions.
Livres illustrés.
illustrated books.
ART Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions General.
ART History Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
HISTORY Europe Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY Social History.
ART History.
HISTORY Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Europe.
Art and society.
Art, Soviet.
Soviet Union.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Witkovsky, Matthew S., 1967- editor.
Fore, Devin, 1972- editor.
Bois, Yve-Alain, contributor.
Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution.
Art Institute of Chicago organizer, host institution.
V-A-C Foundation, organizer, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295326
Call No.: BIB 241485
Status: Available