Volume 37, Number 13 · August 16, 1990
Invisible Cities
By Murray Kempton
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde 28–September 4, 1990
an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York June
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde
catalog of the exhibition by Catherine Cooke
The Museum of Modern Art/distributed by Abrams, 143 pp., $37.50 (paper)
When Joseph Conrad distilled the elements of human existence into the blessing of illusions and the curse of fact, he anticipated Soviet history, whose epitome The Museum of Modern Art provides with its freshly opened exhibition, Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde. The Modern's show runs from 1918, when the Soviet Revolution was newborn, through the scant sixteen years that were enough for it to swell into the pomposities of middle age.
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