Street Art of the Revolution: Festivals and Celebrations in Russia, 1918–33 ed. by Vladimir Tolstoy, Irina Bibikova, Catherine Cooke (review)

STREET ART OF THE REVOLUTION: FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS IN RUSSIA, 1918-33 Vladimir Tolstoy, Irina Bibikova and Catherine Cooke, eds. Thames and Hudson, London, U.K., 1990. 240 pp., illus. Trade, £30.00. ISBN: 0-50023562 -7. Reviewed byJohn W Cooper, sub-editor, Pergamon Press, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford 0X3 OB~ U.K Aesthetics A Tmnsformational Theory ofAesthetics Michael Stephan. Routledge, New York, NY,U.S.A., 1990. 233 pp., illus. Trade, $35.00. ISBN:0-414-04196-1. Art Criticism/History Charles-Louis Clirisseau and the Genesis ofNeo-Classicism Thomas McCormick. MIT Press, Cambridge , MA, U.S.A., 1991. 272 pp., illus. Trade, $35.00. ISBN: 0-262-13262-1. Although the 'party line' is not obtrusive , it is well to be aware that this is a translation of the 1984 Moscow edition and thus the writing is decidedly pre-glastnost. With this one reservation Street Art ofthe Revolution is a splendid evocation of the tremendous excitement and creative energy of the 15 years following the 1917 Revolution . The great beauty of many of the sites of revolutionary events encouraged artists to use them as 'architectural backcloths' to their creations, displayed for all to see and from BOOKS RECEIVED Dipinti e Sculture in Casa Martelli Alessandra Civai. Opus Libri, Firenze, Italy, 1990.209 pp., illus. (no price, no ISBN) Gio Ponti: The Complete Work, 1923-1978 Lisa Licitra Ponti. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1990.300 pp., iIlus. Trade, $65.00. ISBN: 0-262-16118-4. James Turrell: The Art ofLight and space Craig Adcock. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 1991. 296 pp., illus. Trade, $75.00. COMPACT DISCS RECEIVED Digital Music Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta. Mode, P. O. Box 375, Kew Gardens, NY 11415, U.S.A.,1990. Musiche per Poche Parti, 1989 Etifonica Series Goffredo Haus. Virgin Dischi, Via Belluno 4,20132 Milano, Italy. which all could learn-state propaganda being never far away. A decisive epoch is well captured. Painting as Model Yve-AlainBois. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1991. 327 pp., iIlus. ISBN: 0-26202306 -7. Ulm Design: The Morality ofObjects Herbert Lindinger, ed. MIT Press, Cambridge , MA, U.S.A., 1991. 288 pp., illus. Trade, $45.00. ISBN: 0-262-12147-6. Color Dimensional Color Lois Swirnoff. Design Science Collection, Arthur L. Loeb, ed. Birkhauser, Boston, MA, U.S.A., 1989. Current Literature 495 ...