The book of a major scientist -art -study of Nina Viktorovna Yavorskaya (1902 – 1992) is the first monographic study on the history of the State Museum of New Western Art – a unique institution, which for thirty years of its existence (1918 – 1948) introduced Soviet spectators to the latest artistic trends. Based on archival materials, the author talks about the various aspects of the museum and pays great attention to the completion of the funds, the exhibition, guardian and research activities of its employees. The reader is offered not just a documented historical excursion, but an expressive narrative about the fate of the whole generation of domestic art historians and museum workers.
Author
Yavorskaya Nina Viktorovna
Publisher
Bogsmart, 2012
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