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Exhibition Catalogs as Documents of Early Twentieth-Century Performing Arts in Russia and the Soviet Union

ABSTRACT The October Revolution of 1917 transformed the world of arts in Russia and led to an unprecedented proliferation of performative events. Examining performances through the lens of extant exhibition documentation dating from the two decades following the revolution, the author attempts to tease out relevant information from exhibition-related pamphlets and checklists, demonstrating the value of an often overlooked kind of small publication as primary source material for the study of the performing arts. Based on materials collected by the Frick Art Reference Library, the author gives an overview of the challenges of describing, preserving, and making digitally accessible rare ephemeral documents of Russian and Soviet arts from first half of the twentieth century.