Zhilyaev, Arseny (ed.) — Avant-Garde Museology

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press 2015. 12mo. 576 pp. Soft Covers, As New In Publisher's Shrink Wrap. Illustrations. The museum of contemporary art might very well be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiments, social projects, or errant futures. But in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia, this recording device was undertaken by artists and thinkers as a site for experiementation. This book presents essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism of this period by figures such as Nikolai Fedorov, Aleksandr Rodschenko, Kazimir Malevich, and others - many translated from the Russian for the first time. .