Catalog for the first major museum survey devoted exclusively to the Russian Avant-Garde. Describes the goals and effervescence of Russian Modernism and its waning in the late 1920's when the avant-garde impulse was no longer tolerated by the Soviet government. 288p. Bibliography. Checklist for exhibition. Artists range from Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo and Vassilii Kandinsky to Eli Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich and Alexandr Rodchenko. Several essays. Includes photographs and many b/w reproductions of paintings.