The Russian Visual Revolution

The Art of the Russian Revolution is usually represented in the West by the iconic abstract paintings of Malevich or Kandinsky, defined by their pure forms. Art historian Ekaterina Degot, a foremost authority on the Russian Avant-Garde who was recently appointed Artistic Director of “Steirischer Herbst”, argues that this reading is insufficient. In a conversation with Dessy Gavrilova, she offers a new perspective on Russia’s Avant-Garde artists and interrogates the West’s persistent misreadings of the October Revolution.

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