Russian Art of the Revolution. Exhibition catalog.

Cornell University, 1970. Wraps, published in an edition of 2000 copies.  Catalog for an exhibition at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1971. Good with moderate shelf wear and underlining of the words “Lender” in the exhibition list at the back of the book. Introduction by Sarah Bodine with illustrations followed by 63 black and white single page reproductions of artwork. Includes a few photographic portraits of artists.   Artists include Larionov, Goncharova, Exter, Malevich, Puni, Kliun, Kandinsky, Pevsner, Rodchenko, Rosonova, Popova, Vesnen, Medunevsky, El Lissitsky, Chagall, Buruuk, Tatlin, et al.  Not issued with ISBN number. Uncommon.  Summary:

Russian Art of the Revolution was produced as the catalogue for an exhibition first shown at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University in 1971 and later at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The book documents and interprets a pivotal period in Russian visual culture roughly surrounding the October Revolution of 1917 and the early Soviet years, when artists radically redefined artistic practice in response to unprecedented social and political change.

The catalogue includes a foreword by Thomas W. Leavitt and an introduction by Sarah Bodine, which together frame the revolutionary art movement in its historical context—highlighting how artists adapted to and shaped the new Soviet reality. It reproduces images of works by key figures in the Russian avant-garde and early Soviet art, such as Yurii Annenkov, Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine, David Burliuk, Marc Chagall, Alexandra Exter, Naum Gabo, Natalia Goncharova, Vassily Kandinsky, Ivan Kliun, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Anton Pevsner, Liubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rosanova, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Vesnin, and Yurii Yakulov.

Through these selections, the book illustrates the extraordinary diversity of artistic responses to the Revolution and early Soviet culture: from Suprematist abstraction and Constructivist experiments to figurative and design work imbued with revolutionary ideals or social aspirations. The reproduced works and accompanying texts reveal how artists negotiated formal innovation, ideological commitments, and the relationship between art and society as Russia transitioned from imperial rule to revolutionary upheaval.

As an exhibition catalogue, Russian Art of the Revolution functions both as a visual record of the show and as a documentary overview of a transformative era in early 20th-century Russian art, helping to introduce these movements and artists to a broader international audience at a time when scholarship on the Russian avant-garde was still emerging outside the Soviet sphere.