RICHARD PARESort: BookTitle: The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932Authors: Richard ParePublisher: The Monacelli Press Year: 2007ISBN-13:1580931855Language: English

Description: The Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 19221932 examines the Soviet avant-garde architecture in the post-revolutionary period when some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new architectural language in support of new social goals of communal life.Examples of this avant-garde architecture abound, not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg but throughout the former U.S.S.R., in cities such as Kiev, Baku, Ivanovo, and Sochi.The Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 19221932 was also an eighty photographs exhibition by architectural photographer Richard Pare at the MoMA from July 18 to October 29, 2007.

Building the RevolutionArchitecture and Art in Russia 1915-1935see larger photoAuthors: By Jean-Louis Cohen and Christina Lodder; Photographs by Richard Pare Imprint: Royal Academy PublicationsISBN: 1-905711-91-3EAN: 9781905711918Availability: In StockPublishing Date: 4/1/2011Trim Size: 9 1/2 x 11 Page Count: 288Cover: Hardcover with jacketIllustrations: 250 full-color

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About the bookThis fascinating book charts the dazzling trajectory of Russian avant-garde architecture during the brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c. 1922 to 1935. Fired by the radical new language of Constructivist artists, such architects as Konstantin Melnikov, Moisei Ginzburg, and the Vesnin brothers produced designs whose innovative style embodied the energy and optimism of the new Soviet Socialist state. Streamlined, flat-roofed, and white-walled, their extraordinarily novel buildings must have seemed like alien forms.

Architectural photographer Richard Pare has spent the last 15 years documenting the remains and ruins of these structures. Here, his spectacular photographs are juxtaposed with vintage images, ephemera, and drawings and paintings by artists such as Malevich, Tatlin, Popova, and Lissitzky.About the authorJean-Louis Cohen is Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Christina Lodder is professor of art history at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Richard Pare's photography has been exhibited and published widely and is represented in major international public collections.http://arttattler.com/architecturevanguard.htmlKonstantin Melnikov, Melnikov House, dyptych, 1927-31, Moscow, Russia, Richard Pare, 2007.Sorry State of the State: Soviet Russian Avant-Garde ArchitectureLe Corbusier (Charles-douard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret, and Nikolai Kolli, Centrosoyuz Building, detail, 1929-36, Moscow, Russia, Richard Pare, 2007.

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Ilia Golosov, Zuev Workers Club, 1926, Moscow, Russia, Richard Pare, 2007.

Konstantin Melnikov with V.I. Kurochkin, Gosplan Garage, 1936, Moscow, Russia, Richard Pare, 2007.

Sergei Serafimov, Mark Felger, and Samuil Kravets, Gosprom Building, detail, 1929, Kharkov, Ukraine, Richard Pare, 2007.

Vladimir Shukhov, Shabolovka Radio Tower, 1922, Moscow, Russia, Richard Pare, 2007.

Museum of Modern Art11 West 53 StreetBetween Fifth and Sixth avenues212-708-9400New YorkPhilip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, Third floor Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-32July 18-October 29, 2007Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-32 is an exhibition of contemporary photography that captures striking avant-garde structures built in the former Soviet Union during the 1920s and early 1930s, many of which are now severely dilapidated, and others of which are threatened with demolition. The exhibition highlights some 75 photographs by architectural photographer Richard Pare, who worked from 1993 to the present, making eight extensive trips to the region and creating nearly 10,000 images to compile a timely documentation of these neglected modernist structures. Locations vary from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Kiev, Baku, Ivanovo, and Sochi, and buildings range from factories and administrative buildings to communal dwellings and workers clubs.These pictures document a unique chapter in the history of Soviet architecture that began in the early 1920s, when the newly formed Soviet Union saw an unprecedented burst of artistic and architectural creativity and productivity, and which lasted until the mid-1930s, when Stalin's regime prohibited modern architecture in favor of monumental neo-classical buildings intended to express the power of the state.Lost Vanguard is organized by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, with guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.Apart from a few iconic examples long famous in textbooks, the full extent of the architecture of this time was largely unknown until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The range of these images reveals that far from a period of paper experimentation, the Soviet avant-garde created a large legacy of actual building. Nor was this limited to Moscow; architecture spread the culture of revolution to all parts of the Soviet Union. Lost Vanguard also includes a selection of Russian architecture journals on loan from private collections notably that of Stephen Garmey which provide historical context and show pictures of iconic Russian modernist structures as they appeared when new. Explains Mr. Bergdoll, Pares photographs capture a lost heroic, political, and architectural experiment. Many images depict daring architectural innovations in dynamic interiors with bold ramps, dramatic cantilevers, and double-glazing systems, which are startlingly advanced for their time. The forms also speak of aspirations for a new collectivized society, with institutions giving rise to unprecedented designs, particularly in projects for workers clubs and collective housing.From structures made by international architects such as Le Corbusiers Centrosoyuz (1929-36) in Moscow and Erich Mendelsohns Red Banner Textile Factory (1925-27) in St. Petersburg, to the Narkomfin Communal House by Moisei Ginzburg and Ignati Milinis (1930) and architect Konstantin Melnikovs own house (1927-31) in Moscow, the buildings illustrated in this exhibition demonstrate the legacy of this forgotten Soviet modernist architecture.Mr. Cohen adds, The photographic expeditions that Richard Pare led make it possible to measure the effect of time on places whose creators intended to break with the past. The rusted steel, the scarified concrete, and the cracking paint captured by the lens of Richard Pare remain that way, beyond any melancholy, as if animated by this past life in its hopes as in its illusions.

Moisei Ginzburg and Ignati Milinis, Narkomfin Communal House, detail, 1930, Moscow, Russia, Richard Pare, 2007.

Erich Mendelsohn, Red Banner Textile Factory, 1925-37, St. Petersburg, Russia, Richard Pare, 2007.

Semen Pen, Palace of the Press, detail, 1932, Baku, Azerbaijan, Richard Pare, 2007.

Erich Mendelsohn, Red Banner Textile Factory, Interior view, detail, 1925-37, St. Petersburg, Russia, Richard Pare, 2007.