1. Russian Revolution
... since has the avant-garde been so allied with a reigning government. Yet after being embraced by Lenin and his plan for Monumental Propaganda, the avant-garde fail victim to the very monster they helped to construct. In October 1917, the Red Army joined the Revolutionists and put down ... In the other waited a newly powerful, bashful, Soviet government who ran art through Tatlin and IZO and knew little about how to control the monster it had created. Malevich and the left argued "that art was essentially a spiritual activity, that its business was to order man's vision of ... strokes, L...
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