Alla Rosenfeld

Defining Russian Graphic Arts explores the energy and innovation of Russian graphic arts during the period which began with the explosion of artistic creativity initiated by Serge Diaghilev at the end of the nineteenth century and which ended in the mid-1930s with Stalin's devastating control over the arts. This beautifully illustrated book represents the development of Russian graphic arts as a continuum during these forty years, and places Suprematism and Constructivism in the context of the other major, but lesser-known, manifestations of early twentieth-century Russian art. The book includes such diverse categories of graphic arts as lubki (popular prints), posters and book designs, journals, music sheets, and ephemera. It features not only standard types of printed media and related studies and maquettes, but also a number of watercolor and gouache costume and stage designs. About 100 works borrowed from the National Library of Russia and the Research Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia-many seen here for the first time outside of Russia-are featured in this book. Additional works have been drawn from the Zimmerli Art Museum, The New York Public Library, and from other public and private collections. Together they provide a rare opportunity to view and learn about a wide variety of artists, from the acclaimed to the lesser known. This book is a companion volume to an exhibition appearing at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.

From Diaghilev to Stalin, 1898-1934

Defining Russian Graphic Arts

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum

Highlighting scores of works from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection at the Zimmerli Art Museum, the largest repository of Soviet nonconformist art in existence, this massive volume features ten scholarly essays examining the Conceptualist movement in Russia, as well as statements by and interviews with such prominent Russian artists as Ilya Kabakov and the collaborative team of Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid.

Moscow Conceptualism in Context

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli art museum (New Brunswick, N.J.).

Zimmerli art museum at Rutgers (New Brunswick, N.J.).

The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 1956-1986, which comprises nearly twenty thousand works, is part of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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