“A Big Cosmic Force”: Katherine S. Dreier and the Russian/Soviet Avant-Garde

Gross, Jennifer R.

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“A Big Cosmic Force”: Katherine S. Dreier and the Russian/Soviet Avant-Garde

Dickran Tashjian

The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America

International forces and circumstances seemingly worked against her, yet Katherine S. Dreier became a leading player in the presentation of Russian artists in the United States between the two world wars. Her improbable achievement is a story that has been obscured by the anomalous character of the Société Anonyme, Inc., the “Museum of Modern...

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Dickran Tashjian

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.45-73

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00159.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15472

Chapter subject tags:Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952Art, Russian--20th centuryArt--Collectors and collectingArt, ModernArt, Soviet

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List of illustrations

Improvisation No. 7 (Storm) by Kandinsky, Vassily
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1910
The Eye of God by Burlyuk, David
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923–1924
Archipentura (Chemise) by Archipenko, Alexander
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1927
Archipentura (Nude) by Archipenko, Alexander
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1927
Cover of Erst Russische Kunst Austellung (First Russian art show) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1922
Proun 19D by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1922
Suprematism (formerly Abstraction) by Drevin, Aleksandr
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1921
Construction in Relief (formerly Space Construction C) by Gabo, Naum
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1920
Tochil’schik Printsip Mel’kaniia (The Knife Grinder or Principle of Glittering) by Malevich, Kazimir
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1912–1913
Spatial Construction (formerly Construction no. 557) by Medunetsky, Konstantin
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1919
Painterly Architectonic by Popova, Lyubov'
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1918
Painterly Architectonic by Popova, Lyubov'
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1918
At the Piano by Udal'tsova, Nadezhda
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1915
City Shapes by Lozowick, Louis
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1922–1923
Machine Ornament. Abstraction by Lozowick, Louis
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
c. 1925–1926
Cover of Modern Russian Art by Lozowick, Louis
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1925
Cover of Modern Art at the Sesqui-Centennial by Alajalov, Constantin
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1926
Portrait of Marcel Duchamp by Pevsner, Antoine
By John Carlson
on Aug 22
1926
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): The Machinery (Teil der Schaumaschinerie) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): Sentinel (Posten) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): Announcer (Ansager) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): Globetrotter (in Time) (Globetrotter [in der Zeit]) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): Anxious Ones (Ängstliche) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): Troublemaker (Zankstifter) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): Old Man (Head Two Paces Behind) (Alter [Kopf 2 Schritt hinten]) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): Sportsmen (Sportmänner) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): Gravediggers (Totengräber) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Victory over the Sun (Sieg über die Sonne): New Man (Neuer) by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Cover of Broom by Lissitzky, El
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1923
Cover of Modern Art by Alajalov, Constantin; Dreier, Katherine Sophie
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1926
Cover of the Little Review by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1926
Advertisement for Polygraphic Company of America by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1926
Cover of Brochure Quarterly by Alajalov, Constantin
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1928
40 Variations (#9) by Dreier, Katherine Sophie
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1937
40 Variations (#8) by Dreier, Katherine Sophie
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1937
Katherine S. Dreier and Koko at her home in Milford, Connecticut by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Jul 11
1928