The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934

[Doug Millison]

The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934 [Flash]
http://www.moma.org/russian/

A companion site to an exhibit now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York (last mentioned in the November 6, 2001 _Scout Report_), The
Russian Avant-Garde Book: 1910-1934 affords visitors an opportunity to
explore a lost world of artists and intellectuals who wanted to help change
the world by making it see the sense in communism and socialism. Broken into
three parts, provocatively titled A Slap in the Face of Public Taste,
Transform the World, and Building Socialism, the exhibit awakens viewers to
the passion from which it sprang. A lively interactive tour, the online
exhibit shuttles visitors past more than three hundred examples of Russian
avant-garde text, graphic art, and photography. Following each multi-panel
tour, users are free to return to the main page of any of the three exhibits
and consider at leisure the items that most grabbed their interest. Perhaps
most compelling is the site's perspective of the life cycle of the Russian
Avant-Garde movement itself, which only meant to help but was ultimately
suppressed by a dictator who came to fear internal artistic expression as
much as he did political challenge or resistance.

--The Scout Report -- April 19, 2002