Turkestan Avant-Garde Exhibition Catalogue

This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Orient (Muzei Vostoka) in Moscow publishes an extraordinary mélange of cultures captured during a brief period of the 1920s and early 30s when art in the USSR was using the experimental forms of modernism to inspire people outside European Russia. Turkestan Avant-Garde is the combination of the newest Western movements of the 20th century with the ancient national Eastern traditions. Dust jacket, paperback. Book is in excellent condition. Published in Moscow in 2009. 223 pages.