Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art: The Soviet Union at the Venice Biennale

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Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art : The Soviet Union at the Venice Biennale. / Handberg, Kristian.

New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms. ed. / Kristian Handberg; Flavia Frigeri. Routledge, 2021. p. 220-231.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Harvard

Handberg, K 2021, Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art: The Soviet Union at the Venice Biennale. in K Handberg & F Frigeri (eds), New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms. Routledge, pp. 220-231.

APA

Handberg, K. (2021). Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art: The Soviet Union at the Venice Biennale. In K. Handberg, & F. Frigeri (Eds.), New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms (pp. 220-231). Routledge.

Vancouver

Handberg K. Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art: The Soviet Union at the Venice Biennale. In Handberg K, Frigeri F, editors, New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms. Routledge. 2021. p. 220-231

Author

Handberg, Kristian. / Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art : The Soviet Union at the Venice Biennale. New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms. editor / Kristian Handberg ; Flavia Frigeri. Routledge, 2021. pp. 220-231

Bibtex

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