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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Russian Criticism Before the Revolution: 1890s-1917 | |
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| Facing Europe: Impressions, Contacts, and Criticisms | |
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| "Notes on Art" (1897) | |
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| "Decline or Renaissance? a Survey of Contemporary Trends in Art" (1897) | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Art: Painting (1901) | |
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| "An Artist's Text" (1918) | |
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| On the Border of Two Centuries (1930) | |
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| "On Grand Art" (1907) | |
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| "The Bases of Artistic Judgment" (1899) | |
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| "European Exhibitions and Russian Painters" (1896) | |
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| "The Exhibition in Helsingfors" (1899) | |
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| "Exhibitions" (1898) | |
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| Letter to Vladimir Stasov (1898) | |
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| "The Court of Miracles" (1899) | |
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| "Around European Exhibitions" (1904) | |
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| "A Letter from Munich" (1909-10) | |
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| Western Influences: Symbolism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and the Golden Fleece Exhibitions | |
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| "Böet;cklin's Painting" (1900) | |
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| "Maurice Denis" (1901) | |
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| "Around Europe" (1902) | |
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| "An Artist's Conversations: 1. On Impressionism" (1899) | |
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| "Around Europe: Letters on Contemporary Art" (1902) | |
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| "The Proletarian Movement and Bourgeois Art" (1905) | |
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| "The Autumn Salon" (1904) | |
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| "C�zanne" (1905) | |
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| "Aspirations of the New French Painting" (1908) | |
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| Letters from Paris to Il'ia Mashkov (1908) | |
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| "The Golden Fleece Salon" (1908) | |
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| "Moscow Exhibitions" (1909) | |
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| Matisse, Picasso, and the Shchukin and Morozov Collections | |
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| "S. I. Shchukin's French Collection" (1914) | |
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| Intimate Pages (1910) | |
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| "Kartiniia" (1914) | |
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| "French Artists in the Morozov Collection" (1912) | |
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| "The Museum of Modern Western Art in Moscow (The Morozov Section)" (1922-23) | |
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| "The Salon" (1910) | |
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| "The 'Salon' and Bakst's School" (1910) | |
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| "The Izdebsky Salon" (1910) | |
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| "The Autumn Salon" (1910) | |
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| Letter to Nadezhda Shamshina (1911) | |
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| "Moscow Impressions" (1911) | |
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| "Stamped Culture" (1909) | |
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| "Apropos of an Exhibition in London with Participating Russian Artists" (1913) | |
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| "More on New Trends in Art" (1912) | |
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| "Literature, Art Criticism, Debates, and Lectures" (1913) | |
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| "Beauty's Corpse (Apropos of Picasso's Paintings)" (1915) | |
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| Picasso and the Environs (1917) | |
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| Cubism and Futurism | |
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| "What Is Cubism?" (1912) | |
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| "A Letter from Paris" (1912) | |
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| "Art and Social Life" (1912) | |
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| "Cubism (Surface-Plane)" (1912) | |
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| Diary (1912-13) | |
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| "On Du Cubisme by Metzinger and Gleizes" (1913) | |
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| The Principles of Cubism and Other Currents in Painting from All Ages and Nations (1913) | |
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| "Cubism" (1915) | |
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| "On New Systems in Art: Statics and Speed" (1919) | |
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| "Escapes from Cubism" (1923) | |
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| "Boccioni's Futurist Sculpture Exhibition" (1913) | |
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| Futurism: Toward a New Symbolism (1914) | |
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| "On Marinetti's Visit to Russia" (1914) | |
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| The Crisis in Art (1917) | |
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| "Futurism" (1919) | |
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| Art and Nationality: Polemics and Reactions | |
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| "Art Survey" (1910) | |
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| "The 'Russian Seasons' in Paris" (1910) | |
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| "Icons and the New Art" (1913) | |
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| "The Noisy 'Benois' and the New Russian National Art" (1913) | |
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| Foreword to the Goncharova exhibition catalogue (1913) | |
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| On the Ties of Russian Painting to Byzantium and the West, 13th-20th Centuries: Thoughts of an Artist (1913) | |
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| "The Painting of the Everythingists" (c. 1914) | |
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| Benedikt Livshits, and Artur Lourie, "We and the West" (1914) | |
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| "Russia. Art. We" (1914) | |
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| Russian and Soviet Criticism After the Revolution | |
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| The International of Art and the Great Utopia | |
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| Reminiscences of Lenin (1924) | |
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| "Our Critique. Essay One: On Artistic Heritage" (1918) | |
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| "The Art of the Labor Commune" (1918) | |
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| Decree of the Soviet of People's Commissars on the Nationalization of the Sergei Shchukin art Gallery (1918) | |
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| "The Museum of Western Art in Moscow" (1920) | |
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| "The Museum of the Culture of Painting" (1920) | |
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| Diary Entry (1919) | |
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| "The Third International" (1919) | |
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| "The International of Art (The Tasks Confronting the International Union of Fine Arts Workers)" (1919) | |
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| "The Great Utopia" (1920) | |
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| IZO Editorial (1921) | |
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| "We and the West" (1920) | |
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| Tatlin (Against Cubism) (1921) | |
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| "On the Exchange of Art Exhibitions with Western Europe" (1921) | |
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| "Toward Proletarian Art" (1922) | |
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| "Predictions" (1922) | |
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| "On the Emerging New Phase of All-European Art" (1922) | |
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| "From the Wanderers to Heroic Realism" (1923) | |
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| "A Response to French Artists" (1924) | |
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| "Once Again on French Artists and Us" (1924) | |
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| "The USSR and French Artists" (1924) | |
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| New Visions of Western Art | |
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| "Letters from the West: Dada" (1921) | |
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| "Exhibitions in Berlin" (1922) | |
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| "Futurism" (1923) | |
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| "A Seven-Day Inspection of French Painting" (1923) | |
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| "Rodchenko in Paris: Letters Home" (1927) | |
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| The Artistic Culture of the West (1928) | |
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| "The Art of Contemporary America" (1928) | |
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| Expressionism and George Grosz | |
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| "Notes on Western Painting: 1. The End of Expressionism" (1923) | |
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| "Expressionism as a Social Phenomenon: Apropos of Eckart v[on] Sydow, Die deutsche expressionistische Kultur and Maleri (Berlin, 1920)" (1922) | |
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| "Introduction" to George Marzinski's The Expressionist Method in Painting (1923) | |
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| "Apropos of the German Art Exhibition" (1924) | |
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| "Ecce Homo" (1923) | |
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| "George Grosz" (1923) | |
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| "Foreword" to the Russian translation of George Grosz and Wieland Herzfelde's Art Is in Danger: Three Essays (1926) | |
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| "Art Is in Danger" (1926) | |
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| Creating a Model for Revolutionary Art | |
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| "On the New Realism in Connection with Western European Trends in Art" (1925) | |
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| "Revolutionary Art of the West (The State Academy of Artistic Sciences Exhibition)" (1926) | |
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| The Art of Contemporary Europe (1926) | |
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| "Discussion on AKhRR" (1926) | |
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| "Against Leftist Phrase Mongering and Unfair Criticism (Apropos of Comrade A. Kurella's Article)" (1928) | |
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| "From 'Russia's Revolutionary Art' to Proletarian Art: Responses and Questions for the Critics" (1928) | |
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| "Diego Rivera" (1929) | |
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| "Militant Art: John Heartfield, Proletarian Artist" (1932) | |
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| Changing Views of Western Art | |
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| "The Contemporary French Art Exhibition in Moscow" (1928) | |
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| "The French in Moscow" (1928) | |
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| Vladimir Vasil'evich Lebedev (1928) | |
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| "From Dada to Surrealism: On Painting, Literature, and the French Intelligentsia" (1929) | |
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| "Contemporary French Painting" (1929) | |
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| "Against the Cult of the French" (1930) | |
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| "To the Highest Level!" (1931) | |
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| "Comrade Bogorodskii's Trip Abroad" (1931) | |
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| "The Museum of Modern Western Painting Must Live!" (1930) | |
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| "A Journey to Armenia: The French" (1933) | |
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| "C�zanne and C�zannism" (1921) | |
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| "R[obert] Fal'k and Moscow Painting" (1923) | |
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| "The Still Life as a Problem of Style" (1928) | |
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| "Mikhail Larionov's Impressionist Period" (1928) | |
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| "The Pissarro Exhibition: Letter from Paris" (1929) | |
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| "Response to an Impressionist" (1929) | |
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| "The Painter of Happiness: On Viewing Renoir's Canvases" (1933) | |
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| The End of an Era | |
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| "Against Formalism in Soviet Art" (1936) | |
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| "An Eyewitness Account of the Closing of the Museum of Modern Western Art" (1988) | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Index | |