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Illustrations Figure 1. Narkompros Structure After 1921 Reorganization 14 Figure 2. Art Institutions Within Narkompros After 1922 Reorganization 17 Figure 3. Konstantin Medunetsky, Spatial Construction. 1920.Tin, brass, iron, and aluminum. 45 cm. Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of Collection Société Anonyme. 20 Figure 4. Pyotr Vil’yams, Portrait of V. E. Meierkhol’d. 1925. Oil on canvas. 210 × 138 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery. 23 Figure 5. Nikolai Suetin, Drawing for Wagon with UNOVIS Symbol for the Train Trip to Moscow. 1920. Paper, gouache, watercolor, and tusche. 20.3 × 18.2 cm. State Russian Museum. Copyright © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. 46 Figure 6. Unknown photographer, teachers and students of UNOVIS in Vitebsk, before their departure for Moscow to participate in the All-Russia Conference of Art Teachers and Students. June 1920. 47 Figure 7. Sergei Ivanov, Long Live the Third Communist International! 1920. Colored lithograph. 66 × 88 cm. Slavic and Baltic Division, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. 48 Figure 8. Unknown photographer, El Lissitzky, Workbenches Await You. 1920. Propaganda board, Vitebsk. 53 Figure 9. Unknown photographer, UNOVIS studio, Vitebsk, 1921. 55 Figure 10. Unknown photographer, department heads Nikolai Punin, Kazimir Malevich, and Mikhail Matiushin at the State Institute of Artistic Culture, Leningrad. 1925. 79 Figure 11. Unknown photographer, set of Zangezi at the Museum of Artistic Culture, Petrograd. 1922. 80 Figure 12. Unknown photographer, Kazimir Malevich and colleagues in the Formal-Theoretical Department at the State Institute of Artistic Culture (GINKhUK). About 1925. 90 Figure 13. Kazimir Malevich, Landscape with Five Houses. About 1928. Oil on canvas. 83 × 62 cm. State Russian Museum. 102 Figure 14. Kazimir Malevich, Female Portrait. About 1928. Oil on plywood. 58 × 49 cm. State Russian Museum. 103 ...

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