Dziga Vertov’s Across One Sixth of the World marked the height of the early revolutionary avant-garde film in the 1920s, before the cultural encroachment of Stalin’s...
Aleksandr Deineka lived and worked in the early beginnings of the Stalinist regime during the “imposition” of the official art style of Socialist Realism,...
This is Vladimir Tatlin’s “Counter-Relief,” one of the prime examples of his avant-garde Constructivist movement of the pre-Revolutionary Russian modernist art scene. One...
From the way he writes about it, Robert Smithson was a man inspired when he created Spiral Jetty, the almost “modern Prehistoric” landscape artwork in...
Chris Burden ushered in a new era of performance art with his “masochistic” works, such as his most famous/infamous piece Shoot. Shoot itself holds a special...
The grandest, albeit possibly ideologically destructive, early Soviet mass spectacle is without a doubt The Storming of the Winter Palace (1920). The spectacle itself was...
