In the entire sweep of this nation's visual art, the one unavoidable exception to this derivative status was the Russian avant-garde, roughly between 1915 and 1935. For one all-too-brief moment, painters such as Kazimir Malevich and sculptors such as Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo displayed a frantic originality, engendering an unprecedented vocabulary of forms that still exert their fascination on artists of today.
But what about the architecture associated with that movement? A rare chance to assess it is provided by a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, "Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–32."
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