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Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich : the Russian avant-garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922 / edited by Angela Lampe

Catalog Data

Author:
Chagall, Marc 1887-1985 Works Selections  Search this
Lissitzky, El 1890-1941 Works Selections  Search this
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich 1878-1935 Works Selections  Search this
Organizer:
Lampe, Angela  Search this
Host institution:
Centre Georges Pompidou  Search this
Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Subject:
Chagall, Marc 1887-1985  Search this
Lissitzky, El 1890-1941  Search this
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich 1878-1935  Search this
Physical description:
285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 x 25 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
History
Place:
Belarus
Vitsebsk
Soviet Union
Date:
2018
20th century
Notes:
Exhibited: "Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: the Russian avant-garde in Vitebsk", Centre Georges Pompidou, March 28-July 16, 2018, and (in a modified version) Jewish Museum, New York, September 14, 2018-January 6, 2019.
Contents:
Postrevolutionary fervor in Vitebsk -- Chagall in the service of the revolution / Angela Lampe -- The Vitebsk debate on revolutionary art, 1918-19 / Alexander Lisov -- The People's Art School -- The Vitebsk art laboratories for world reconstruction / Maria Kokkori and Alexander Bouras -- Leftist art according to Chagall -- Chagall and suprematism / Tamara Karandasheva -- "The new in art": Lissitzky and Malevich -- Vitebsk: A turning point in Lissitzky's life / Willem Jan Renders -- Teach, write, experiment: Malevich in Vitebsk, 1919-22 / Alexandra Shatskikh -- Collective utopia -- UNOVIS: Organization and ideology / Tatiana Goriacheva -- A collection as model -- The Vitebsk Museum of Contemporary Art / Irina Karasik -- After Vitebsk -- Mass/Ornament: Suprematism's third dimension / Samuel Johnson -- UNOVIS in the history of the Russian avant-garde / Jean-Claude MarcadeĢ
Summary:
This groundbreaking book explores the Russian avant-garde during the early post-revolutionary years of 1918-1922 and brings together the works of three of its most influential artists. When Marc Chagall took over the People's School of Art in his hometown of Vitebsk in 1919, he had already established himself as an avant-garde artist. For the next few years, Chagall established the once-sleepy Belarusian town as a hub of revolutionary art making. Along with Kazimir Malevitch and El Lissitzky, Chagall presided over a flowering of creativity and artistic energy that became a focal point of Russian modernism. This volume features 250 works and documentary items from Vitebsk, bringing to life a little-known chapter in the history of art. Every aspect of this brief but decisive period is examined here, from Chagall's notion of proletariat art to the birth of the UNOVIS group and its trailblazing expositions. Correspondence among Chagall, Malevitch, and Lissitzky are featured alongside important works from all three artists as well as art from their colleagues and students. The result is a multifaceted portrait of a unique collaboration that forged a new path for artistic expression which extended far beyond the boundaries of Vitebsk. -- From publisher's description
Topic:
Art--History  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Art, Russian  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1102977