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.

Via State Mayakovsky Museum, Moscow
Artist and composer Mikhail Matyushin, poet Alexei Kruchyonykh (lying down), and Kazimir Malevich (1913). Via State Mayakovsky Museum, Moscow

‘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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