The Avant-Garde Museum

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"The publication contains texts devoted to four important avant-garde museum projects: the network of Museums of Artistic Culture established after the October Revolution in Russia, Kabinett der Abstractten designed by EI Lissitzki for the Hanoverian Provinzialmuseum in 1927, Société Anonyme established in New York in the early 1920s and the International Collection Modern Art by the ar group , made available to the public in 1931 at the City Museum in Łódź, today's Museum of Art. Critical studies by outstanding researchers dealing with the history of the avant-garde are accompanied by a selection of source texts and a rich iconography presenting both archival materials and selected works from collections related to the projects in question."--