Article: Liubov Popova.

It is hard to imagine that Liubov Popova was a contemporary of Monet, and that her uncompromising forays into pure, cubistic form were coeval with the languid late-summer reveries of Monet's Water Lilies. For those with a taste for irony, few works could be more stimulating than Abrams's new monograph on this Russian avantgarde artist, Liubov Popova. It is precisely the dullness of the prose, written by Soviet art-historians Dmitri V. Sarabianov and Natalia L. Adaskina, that makes it so fascinating a document. Speaking of "the spiral movement of the lines and bands that form the conical funnels and the cylinders," Sarabianov says that "this movement clears a path for ...

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