Nina Gurianova - The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde

My research for this book was generously supported by the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, the William F. Milton Fund award, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. The unique intellectual environment provided by the Society of Fellows helped to lay the foundation for this book, while my sabbatical at the National Humanities Center was instrumental in bringing it to completion. These residential fellowships gave me the true luxury of sharing my ideas with others, and the ongoing discussions with William Todd, Dan Aaron, Mark Antliff, Bernard Bailyn, Svetlana Boym, James Dawes, Michelle Facos, Walter Gilbert, Patricia Leighten, Lei Liang, Barry Mazur, Ellen Scary, Amartya Sen, Isabelle Wunsche, and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis enriched my initial approach and inspired me to expand and sharpen my argument.

I am deeply grateful to Jack Flam and Charlene Woodcock who encouraged me to move forward and helped to shape this project from its inception. I also thank especially Boris Gasparov, Robert Belknap, John Malmstad, William Todd, John Bowlt, Clare Cavanagh, Catherine Ciepela, Gary Saul Morson, Bernice Rosenthal, Justin Weir, and Andrew Wachtel, who took upon themselves the labor of reading all or parts of the manuscript's drafts and offered many thoughtful comments. Allan Antliff and Nancy Perloff were among the book's first readers and brought it to life. Stephanie Fay and Eric Schmidt, with great forbearance, have seen this book through the press. To Charles Rougle I am indebtedfor his editorial guidance, and invaluable help with the translation of many of the original citations, and I also would like to extend my sincere appreciation to Kimberly Croswell and Peter Dreyer, who improved the readability of my manuscript through their expert editing.

My book would not have been possible without the warm and unyielding support of my work by Alevtina Shechter, John Krummel, Ekaterina Bobrinskaia, Diana Morse, Elena Murina, Carol Selle, Nela Ichin, Nikolai Firtich, Elena Basner, John Milner, Irina Karasik, Michelle Facos, Willem Weststein, Ilya Kukui, Alla Rosenfeld, Jane and Bill Taubman, Fiona Deutsch, David Thaler, Sergei Kudriavtsev, Murray Murr, and Brother Muzius.

Research was conducted in many different museums, libraries, and archives. I would like to express my endless gratitude to Geurt Imanse, Chief Curator for Research and Documentation, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Foundation Cultural Center Khardzhiev-Chaga; Harvey Shipley Miller of the Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York; Evgeniia N. Petrova, Deputy Director of the Russian Museum; Deborah Wye of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Andrei Krusanov of the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, the staffs at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, and the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Aleksandr Lavrentiev and Vladimir Poliakov for their incredible generosity and gracious help in obtaining the unpublished materials, rare documents, and visual images for my research. I also thank Dan Zellner and the Digital Collections Department at Northwestern University for providing me with the high-quality digital images for my book. The writing of this book was generously supported by Northwestern University. I am indebted to many of my colleagues and students at Northwestern for their assistance.