A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters, 1900-80s

"The paintings of Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century presents a kaleidoscopic variety of styles and movements: from the social criticism, salon painting and impressionist art of the pre-revolutionary years, through avant-gardism, socialist realism and nonconformist art, to the 'permitted' figuration, hyperrealism and post-modern painting of more recent times. Outside these and other tendencies a multitude of painters ploughed individual furrows."--From book jacket.