Galerie Gmurzynska

Exhibition catalogue. 312 p. 259 ill. (37 color). Exhibition of works by fifteen avant-garde Russian women artists with abstract and Constructivist tendencies (Sonia Delaunay, Xenia Ender, Wera Ermolaewa, Alexandra Exter, Natalia Gontscharowa, Elena Guro, Nina Kogan, Walentina Kulagina, Wera Nikolskaja, Ljubow Popowa, Olga Rozanowa, Maria Siniakowa, Antonina Sofronowa, Warwara Stepanowa and Madesha Udalzowa). Introductory essay, "Les Femmes, pourquoi?" in French & German by Krystyna Rubinger; additional introductory essays by John E. Bowlt, Szymon Bojko and Ludmilla Granweher-Vachtowa and remaining texts in English & German, including "Russian Constructivist Clothing: Just One More Utopia?" by Erica Hoffmann-Koenige; "Some Notes on the History of Clothes Design and Other Everyday Items" by Larissa Zhadova. Additional contributions, including vintage texts and statements, by Jacques Lassaigne, Alla Povelikhina, Evgenii Kovtun, Jean-Claude Marcadé, Dmitri Sarabianov, Mary Chamot, Nina Kogan, Vasilii Rakitin, Liubov Popova, Ivan Kliun, Olga Rozanova, Hubertus Gassner, Varvara Stepanova, Kazimir Malevich and Nadezhda Udaltsova; artists' biographies and bibliographies by John E. Bowlt.… (mer)