Kvartira No. 5: k istorii petrogradskogo avangarda 1915-1925 (Apartment No. 5: towards a history of the Petrograd Avant-Garde)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a Russian Museum exhibition explores one vein of the Russian and European avant-garde, which got its name from the memoirs of the art critic Nikolai Brunin. Apt. No. 5 in house 17 of University Embankment was located in the building of the Academy of Arts and served as a meeting place beginning the mid teens of the twentieth century through the years of revolution and civil war. The artists, writers and musicians who met there — the core group seems to have been Petr Miturich, Vladimir Lebedev, Natan Al'tman, Lev Bruni, Nikolai Tyrsa, Nikolai Brunin — considered Tatlin their teacher and their art as part of the left. However, they distanced themselves from both the aesthetic schools of artists of St. Petersburg and the aggressive futurists of Moscow. Chapter titles: "Comradeship /sodruzhestvo/ at Apt. 5"; Tatlin, Punin, Bruni. Formula of Saturation /nagruzheniia/; "the generation of second calling" /vtorogo prizyva/; "Toward a history of Apt. 5": on the artists...; "Brilliant draftsmen." An appendix hasbiographical sketches of each artist. 143 p., 23 x 25 cm, approx. 200 color illus., Rus. Item #1907
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