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The Space Of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions In Leningrad, 1964-1986, Joseph C. Troncale, Evgeny Orlov, Sergei Kovalsky Jan 2006

The Space Of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions In Leningrad, 1964-1986, Joseph C. Troncale, Evgeny Orlov, Sergei Kovalsky

Exhibition Catalogs

The Space of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad, 1964-1986

Joel and Lila Harnetl Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, VA

September 16 to December 3, 2006

We are very pleased to present this traveling exhibition of artwork from the collection of the Museum of Nonconformist Art, Pushkinskaya 10 Art Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia, presented within the context of a re-created "apartment" exhibition from Leningrad. [...]

To our knowledge, [...] The Space of Freedom is the first exhibition organized in the United States to focus on both the artwork shown in communal apartments and on the exhibition space of the …


The Space Of Freedom, Joseph C. Troncale Jan 2006

The Space Of Freedom, Joseph C. Troncale

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

The exhibition, The Space of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad, 1964-1986, invites visitors directly into the carefully re-created interior of a Soviet communal apartment. Within the kind of environment where the paintings first breathed freely, visitors have the opportunity to experience works by unofficial artists of the Soviet era who boldly executed and exhibited art that did not conform to the ideological prescriptions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. These artists had to substitute the private space of their apartments for the public space controlled and denied them by the Party. Planning and staging these exhibitions, the artists …


Pierre Daura, Catalan-American Modernist: People, Places, And Things, University Of Richmond Museums Jan 2005

Pierre Daura, Catalan-American Modernist: People, Places, And Things, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Pierre Daura, Catalan-American Modernist: People, Places, and Things

September 28 to December 11, 2005

Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art and Print Study Center

Introduction

Pierre Daura (American, born Spain, 1896 - 1976) was a member of a radical generation of artists who shaped the development of European modernism from the 1910s to the 1930s. The richness of his art reflects the diverse experiences of his life - growing up in Catalonia, Spain, maturing as an artist in Paris, moving to the small French village of Saint Cirq-Lapopie, participating in the Spanish Civil War, and finally relocating to Rockbridge …