Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935 by Sjeng Scheijen (Thames & Hudson)The Russian avant garde\u2019s rise and fall, Utopian hopes and tragic demise, extreme politics, big personalities \u2014 Malevich, Kandinsky, Chagall, Rodchenko, Tatlin \u2014 is a story gripping as a thriller, and central to 20th-century art history. Scheijen\u2019s account, drawing on artists\u2019 letters, diaries and other substantial archival discoveries, is masterly and moving.The Book of Printed Fabrics by Aziza Gril-Mariotte (Taschen)Mulhouse\u2019s Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Impression sur Etoffes, temple of textiles, mecca for fashion designers, boasts the world\u2019s largest fabric collection. This lavish, luxurious, exceptional tapestry of its treasures from four centuries \u2014 Indian chintzes, decorative toiles de Jouy, Herm\u00e8s scarves, bold modern patterns \u2014 tells tumultuous stories about global trade, technology, changing taste.On the Body by Linda Nochlin (Thames & Hudson)A big welcome to Thames & Hudson\u2019s new, affordable, covetable \u201cPocket Perspectives\u201d: beautifully illustrated essays by canonical writers. Nochlin compellingly explores \u201cthe body in pieces\u201d, metaphor for modernity\u2019s fragmentation, in 19th-century French painting. The series\u2019 other highlights so far are Ernst Gombrich on frescoes and Griselda Pollock on Gauguin.Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography edited by Lou Stoppard (Mack)Nobel laureate Ernaux seeks to work like \u201ca photographer, and to preserve the mystery and opacity of the lives I encountered\u201d. This small, engaging volume pairs \u201cExteriors\u201d, where Ernaux as suburban flaneuse glimpses strangers in caf\u00e9s, council estates, on the metro, with photographers of the social landscape including Henry Wessel, Garry Winogrand, Daido Moriyama, Janine Ni\u00e9pce.Tangled Paths: A Life of Aby Warburg by Hans C H\u00f6nes (Reaktion Books)Aged 13, Aby renounced his role as heir to the Warburg banking business, on condition his younger brother would buy him every book he ever wanted. Against expectations, this Jewish outsider, mentally and physically fragile, too unruly to accept academic discipline, laid the foundations for modern art history: a heroic tale.Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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