Hamilton, George Heard. The Art and Architecture of Russia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Hamilton, George Heard. Painting and Sculpture in Europe: 1880-1940. 6th Ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

http://www.slavweb.com/eng/Russia/art-e.html
An extensive listing of internet resources for Russian and Soviet Art

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/IMRC/russianart/
The Institute of Modern Russian Culture's List of Russian Art Links

http://geocities.com/Paris/Metro/3757/
A gallery of Russian art before 1917

II. Resources on Periods, Movements, and Groups in Russian Art History

The Wanderers

Valkenier, Elizabeth. Russian Realist Art. The State and Society: The Peredvizhniki and their Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

The World of Art

Petrov, Vsevolod. Russian Art Nouveau: The Diaghilev Group of Russian Artists. Translated by Arthur Shkarovsky-Raffe. Bournemouth, England: Parkstone Press, 1997.

Bowlt, John. The Silver Age: Russian Art of the Early Twentieth Century and the “World of Art” Group. Newtonville, MA: Oriental Research Partners, 1982.

Kean, Beverly Whitney. French Painters, Russian Collectors: Shchukin, Morozov and Modern French Art 1890-1914. Rev. ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994.

The Russian Avant-Garde

Gray, Camilla. The Russian Experiment in Art: 1863-1922. Rev. ed. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986.

Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova. Ed. by John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2000.

Elliot, David. New Worlds, Russian Art and Society, 1900-1937. New York: Rizzoli, 1986.

Barron, Stephanie. “The Russian Avant-Garde: A View from the West.” In The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1980.

Yablonskaya, M. N. Women Artists of Russia’s New Age, 1900-1935. Ed. Anthony Parton. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.

Bowlt, John. The Russian Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism 1902-34. New York, 1976.

Janacek, G. The Look of Russian Literature. Avant-Garde Experiments 1900-1930. Princeton, NJ, 1984.

http://www.a-art.com/avantgarde/
Website devoted to the Russian avant garde

http://www.a-art.com/avantgarde/biblio.html
Bibliography of books on the Russian avant garde

Futurism

Compton, S. The World Backwards: Russian Futurist Books 1912-1916. London, 1978.

Suprematism

III. Selected Resources on Individual Russian Painters

David Burliuk (1882-1967)

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

http://www.md.huji.ac.il/chagall/chagall.html
Examples of Chagall's stained-glass windows

Natal’ia Goncharova (1881-1962)

Kandinsky. Complete Writings on Art. Edited by Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994.

Kandinsky, Wassily. Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Translated by M. T. H. Sadler. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977.

Mikhail Vrubel’ (1856-1910)

http://www.phys.lsu.edu/students/alexey/
The Demon Seated

http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vrubel/vrubel.html
Biography and paintings

For other links to individual Russian painters, see:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/IMRC/russianart/alphalist.HTM
An extensive alphabetized list of links to individual Russian painters created by the Institute of Modern Russian Culture

IV. Major Art Museums in Russia

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org

The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg
http://www.rusmuseum.ru

The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
http://www.tretyakov.ru/

Author: KEM 2003.

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