Publisher's Synopsis
This dictionary, a companion volume to the Guggenheim Museum's 1992 exhibition catalogue, "The Great Utopia", provides 292 entries on every major artist, organization, exhibition and publication in Russia and the Soviet Union during its most fruitful period from 1915, the year Kazimir Malevich's "Suprematism" was introduced, to 1932, when Stalin disbanded all Soviet artistic organizations.;The book has benefited from access to newly-opened archives in Moscow, from the collaboration of the former Ministry of Culture of the former Soviet Union, and from Russian, American and European scholars and researchers.
