RUSSIAN MODERNISM BETWEEN EAST AND WEST/ NATAL'IA GONCHAROVA AND THE MOSCOW AVANT

This book reconstructs the efforts of avant-garde artists, primarily Natal'ia Goncharova and her Muscovite colleagues, to reclaim Ru ssia's 'Eastern' cultural heritage. Before the First World War, art addressed a crisis in self-representation that was a consequence of Russia's dual cultural legacies, Asian and European.