Vitebsk Popular Art Institute
Vitebsk Popular Art Institute [Vitebskoe Narodnoe Khudozhestvennoe Uchilishche] was established by Marc Chagall in Vitebsk in January 1919, recruiting artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Ivan Puni, El Lissitzky, V. Ermalaeva and K. Boguslavskaya. [1]
Literature
- Aleksandra Shatskikh (Александра Шатских), Vitebsk. Zhizn iskusstva 1917-1922 [Витебск. Жизнь искусства 1917-1922], Moscow: Yazyki russkoy kultury, 2001, 256 pp. Interview, Review. (Russian)
- Pamela Kachurin, "The Center of Artistic Life: The People's School of Art in Vitebsk, 1919-1923", ch. 2 in Kachurin, Making Modernism Soviet: The Russian Avant-Garde in the Early Soviet Era, 1918-1928, Northwestern University Press, 2013, pp 37-70. (English)
- http://issuu.com/linkedin63/docs/shishanov_izo_vitebsk2010_demo