RUSSIAN AND THE SOVIET VIEWS OF MODERN WESTERN ART, 1890S TO MIND 1930

From the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and wri ters came into wide contact with modern European art and ideas. Introducing a wealth of little-known material set in an illuminating interpretive context, this sourcebook presents Russian and Soviet views of Western art during this critical period of cultural tran sformation. The writings document complex responses to these works and ideas before the Russians lost contact with them almost entir ely. Man...[Llegir més]