Description:
Groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and its spaces of display
Review Quotes: "Up now at the Art Institute of Chicago is the largest of many American exhibitions timed to the centenary of the Russian Revolution, and its catalog pays particular attention to the photographers, graphic designers and architects who aimed to model a new society they really did think was coming. My favorite discovery was a suite of colorful bar graphs charting women's labor productivity, souped up with photocollages of climbing high-rises and satisfied workers: a rather more inventive kind of data journalism."--Jason Farago, New York Times
"Monumental . . . The images, aesthetics, and typography connect with us today because of their astonishing freshness even a century later."--Alan Bisbort, Sunday Republican (Waterbury, Connecticut) "[This] book breaks ground in applying an archeological framework to the study of art history. . . . These essays and images question assumptions about Soviet art . . . and invite readers to consider the work beyond the confines of the historical narrative."--Publishers Weekly