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George Costakis: A Russian Life in Art
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| #4897938 in Books | Mcgill Queens Univ Pr | 1994-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.03 x9.02 x.0l,.0 | File type: PDF | 220 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Worth reading for Russian avant-garde art history|By S. Smith-Peter|This is a very interesting book about the collector of one of the world's largest collections of Russian and Soviet avant-garde art. George Costakis, ethnically a Greek but culturally a Russian, as the title suggests, worked in the Canadian embassy during the mid-20th century and also collected Malevich, Rozan|From Publishers Weekly|Born in Moscow of Greek parents, George Costakis (1912-1990) began collecting paintings of the condemned Russian avant-garde in the mid-1930s. He and his Russian wife Zinaida crammed their apartment with works by Chagall, Kandinsky, Kasimi
This splendid book paints a rich portrait of the Russian avant-garde and the intrigues which it saved for posterity. Roberts has written a fascinating history of the famous Costakis collection and its creator George Costakis who, for nearly thirty years, was an administrative clerk in the Canadian embassy in Moscow. Until his forced departure from Russia in 1978 he collected, continually and painstakingly, the abstract, constructivist and supremacist art of 1912 to ...
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