Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test

Robot

Alexandra Exter · 1926

Cardboard, fabric, wood, glass, and string

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In the Storm of the Third Year of the Five Year Plan (Na shturm 3go goda piatiletka)

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1930

Color offset lithograph on cream wove paper, laid down on cheesecloth

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Asiatic God

Paul Klee · 1924

Oil and plaster, over gauze, on panel

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Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1928

Color lithograph on off-white wove card

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Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1928

Color lithograph on off-white wove card

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Têtes-paysage

Francis Picabia · 1928

Oil on canvas

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Drinking Tea in the Village of Ramenskoe

Boris Ignatovich · 1928, printed 1950s

Gelatin silver print

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Council of the Agricultural Commune

Boris Ignatovich · 1928

Gelatin silver print

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Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray

Piet Mondrian · 1921

Oil on canvas

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By the Phone

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1928, printed 1950s

Gelatin silver print

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The Campaign for a Bolshevist Harvest is a Campaign for Socialism (Bor'ba za bol'shevistskuiu uborku urozhaia - bor'ba za sotsializm)

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1931

Color offset lithograph on cream wove paper (pieced)

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Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1928

Color lithograph on off-white wove card

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Black Square, Second State

Kazimir Malevich · 1915/20

Graphite on cream wove graph paper

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From NEP Russia Will Come Socialist Russia (“Iz Rossii nepovskoi budet Rossiia sotsialisticheskogo” (Lenin))

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1930

Color offset lithograph on cream wove paper

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Painterly Realism of a Football Player—Color Masses in the 4th Dimension

Kazimir Malevich · Summer/fall 1915

Oil on canvas

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Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1928

Color lithograph on off-white wove card

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Plate

Rudol'f Fedorovich Vil'de · 1921

Hard-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

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Worker Men and Women: Everyone Vote in the Soviet Elections (Raboche i rabotnitsy: vse na perevybory sovetov)

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1930

Color offset lithograph on cream wove paper, pieced and laid down on white wove paper

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Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1928

Color lithograph on off-white wove card

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Transrationalists (Zaumniki)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1921–22

Book with fabric and paper collaged elements on gray-blue paper cover (discolored to buff at edges)

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Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1928

Color lithograph on off-white wove card

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Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1928

Color lithograph on off-white wove card

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Dneprostroi Dam

Maks Al'pert · 1928, printed 1950s

Gelatin silver print

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Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1928

Color lithograph on off-white wove card

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Lenin's Language: Eleven Devices of Lenin's Speech (Iazyk Lenina. Odinadtsat' priemov Leninskoi rechi)

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1925

Letterpress book in black on ivory wove paper, with four letterpress illustrations in black, and cover in letterpress in black with stencil in red

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Teapot

State Porcelain Factory Leningrad · 1920/25

Hard-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

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Building Socialism Under the Banner of Lenin (Pod znamenem Lenina, za sotsialisticheskoe stroitel’st)

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1930

Color offset lithograph on cream wove paper

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Plate

State Porcelain Factory Leningrad · 1923

Hard-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

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About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions

El Lissitzky · 1922

Book with letterpress and offset lithography, in black and red, on cream wove paper, stapled along spine

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Postcard Commemorating the Russian All-Union Spartakiada

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1928

Color lithograph on off-white wove card

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Under the Sign of the Komsomol

Gustav G. Klutsis · 1924

Color offset lithograph on cream wove paper

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The Worker’s Club (International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1925

Gelatin silver print

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Transrationalists (Zaumniki)

Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1922

Book with linocut on light red wove paper cover (discolored to pink-cream)

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Proun

El Lissitzky · 1920

Collage of various cut-and-pasted papers, including abrasive paper (prepared with gouache and silver metallic paint), on cream wove paper, laid down on tan laminate board

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