Experiment No. 1
Experiment No. 1 concerns the artitic and material culture of Russia of the period 1900s-30 and contains memoirs, letters, and other archival documents from the era of Russian Modernism:
- John E. Bowlt: Introduction
- Naum Aronson: About My Childhood. Portraits of My Family. My Home (Musya Glants)
- Sergei Mamontov: A Poem Dedicated to Mikhail Vrubel (Janet Kennedy)
- Leonid Pasternak: Autobiographical Fragments (Wendy Salmond)
- Voldemars Matvejs: The Russian Secession (Jeremy Howard)
- Vladimir Izdebsky: Vladimir Izbedsky and His Salons (Dmitrii Severiukhin)
- Vasilii Kandinsky and Giovanni Antonio Colonna di Cesarò: Correspondence Regarding On the Spiritual in Art(Marichia Simcik Arese with editorial commentary by Myriam Beck)
- Nikolai Lozovoi: Pavel Filonov's Analytical Method (John E. Bowlt)
- Natalia Goncharova: Two Letters (Thea Durfee)
- Mikhail Larionov: Exhibition of Lubki and Exchange of Letters with Klavdiia Mikhailova (John E. Bowlt)
- Mikhail Larionov: Futurist Performance in Moscow (Mark Konecny)
- Mikhail Le-Dantiu: The Painting of Everythingness (Ekaterina Yudina)
- Mikhail Matiushin: An Artist's Creative Path (Katherine Rosenzweig)
- Mikhail Matiushin: An Artist's Experience of a New Dimension (Jennifer Cahn)
- Mikhail Matiushin: I Had a Dream (Isabel Wünsche)
- Kazimir Malevich: Colorpainting (Alla Povelikhina)
- Nina Kogan: The Principles of Painterly Abstraction (Nicoletta Misler)
- Marc Chagall: A Letter to Nadezhda Dobychina (John E. Bowlt)
- El Lissitzky: The New Culture (Peter Nisbet)
- Petr Miturich: A Letter to Lev Arens (Gerald Janecek)
- Alexander Rodchenko: Vladimir Maiakovsky (Juliette R. Stapanian)
- Igor Terentiev and Alexei Kruchenykh: A Conversation about "Malancholy in a Bathrobe" (Walter Comins-Richmond)
- Nikolai Evreinov: A Letter to Boris Aronson (Allison Comins-Richmond)
- Alexandra Exter: Exter in Kiev--Kiev in Exter (Dmitrii Gorbachev)
- Alla Ioganson: Remembering Mikhail Boichuk (Valentina Marcadé)
- Ivan Vrona: Vladimir Tatlin in Kiev (Lev Chaim)