Title

Revolutionary Russians.

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (23 September 2006 – 28 January 2007)

Date

(2006 – 2007)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Prints, Posters, Book arts, Photographs

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Avant-garde and revolutionary artists produced graphics, books and photographs in the decades of political and cultural turmoil after 1905. Revolutionary Russians celebrates the centenary of the 1905–06 Russian Revolution and the centenary of the birth of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), utilising the Gallery’s prints, posters, illustrated books and photography collections. On display will be an outstanding collection of coloured journals, published during the Revolution and never previously exhibited. [Gallery media, 2009].