Happily, for a Book on a Weighty Subject, ‘The Avant-Gardists’ Has an Author With a Sense of Humor
Sjeng Scheijen keeps up a convivial tone throughout the book. Given the time-frame and circumstances under discussion, this isn’t easy: ‘The Avant-Gardists’ is, in significant part, a story of almost unutterable naivete.

‘The Avant-Gardists; Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935’
By Sjeng Scheijen
Thames & Hudson, 504 Pages
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