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Russian avant-garde

The Russian avant-garde was a large, influential wave of avant-garde modern art that flourished in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, approximately from 1890 to 1930—although some have placed its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960. The term covers many separate, but inextricably related, art movements that flourished at the time; including Suprematism, Constructivism, Russian Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Zaum, Imaginism, and Neo-primitivism.[2][3][4][5] In Ukraine, many of the artists who were born, grew up or were active in what is now Belarus and Ukraine (including Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Ekster, Vladimir Tatlin, David Burliuk, Alexander Archipenko), are also classified in the Ukrainian avant-garde.[6]

The Russian avant-garde reached its creative and popular height in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1932, at which point the ideas of the avant-garde clashed with the newly emerged state-sponsored direction of Socialist Realism.[7]

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Friedman, Julia

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Kovalenko, G.F. (ed.) The Russian Avant-Garde of 1910–1920 and Issues of Expressionism. Moscow: Nauka, 2003.

Rowell, M. and Zander Rudenstine A. Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection. New York: The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, 1981.

Shishanov V.A. : a history of creation and a collection. 1918–1941. – Minsk: Medisont, 2007. – 144 p.[1]

Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art

“Encyclopedia of Russian Avangard. Fine Art. Architecture Vol.1 A-K, Vol.2 L-Z Biography”; Rakitin V.I., Sarab’yanov A.D., Moscow, 2013

Surviving Suprematism: Lazar Khidekel. Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley CA, 2004

Lazar Khidekel and Suprematism. Prestel, 2014 (Regina Khidekel, with contributions by , Magdalena Dabrowski, Charlotte Douglas, Tatyana Goryacheva, Irina Karasik, Boris Kirikov and Margarita Shtiglits, and Alla Rosenfeld)

Constantin Boym

Tedman, Gary. Soviet Avant Garde Aesthetics, chapter from Aesthetics & Alienation. pp 203–229. 2012. Zero Books.  978-1-78099-301-0

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Why did Soviet Photographic Avant-garde decline?

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The Russian Avant-garde Foundation

Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art – Costakis Collection

at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University

Yiddish Book Collection of the Russian Avant-Garde

International campaign to save the Shukhov Tower in Moscow

Masters of Russian Avant-garde

Masters of Russian Avant-garde from the collection of the M.T. Abraham Foundation

: Chapter 2 in The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy, edited by Slav Gratchev, 2020, Rowman & Littlefield.

Abstraction and Estrangement across the Arts in the Russian Avant-garde