The Unsung Hero of the Russian Avant-Garde: The Life and Times of Nikolay Punin - Natalia Murray - Google Books

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This book is the first biography of Nikolay Punin (1888-1953). One of the most prominent art-critics of the avant-garde, in 1919 Punin was the Commissar of the Hermitage and Russian Museums, he was lecturing at the Academy of Arts and at the State…