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Modern Photography of the Russian Avant-Garde
Curated by Steve Yates
Modern Photography of the Russian Avant-Garde traces the history of this movement with rare photographic works in a variety of media, including original photographs, montages, collages, avant-garde journals, posters, film and theatre as well as experiments in mixed media. Rarely seen and largely unpublished works from Russian public and private collections are assembled together in this exhibition for the first time.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Russia was one of the leading centers of modernism. Russian artists were among the first to grasp the idea of the object as a sign, and their photography and graphic arts created powerful images that became icons of the 1917 revolution.
The artistic and intellectual output of that period was of great importance and complexity. Exhibition curator Steve Yates illuminates one of the most potent movements in art and social history, as artists expressed the changing values of their lives and culture during this turbulent era.
Modern Photography of the Russian Avant-Garde presents groundbreaking, pioneering efforts and collaborations by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Dziga Vertov, Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina, Georgi and Vladimir Stenberg, El Lissitzky, Boris Ignatovich, Georgi Zelma, Max Alpert and others, who took modern photographic art to new heights.
Steve Yates was the former Curator of Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a three-time Fulbright Scholar (Russia 2006–2007, 1995 and USSR 1991).
Image:
Alexander Rodchenko, photomontage for Part I, “Ballad of Reading Gaol” in Pro Eto (It) by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1923.
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