Spatial Revolution is among the nine grantees of the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss Publication Fund for Spring 2020! The Meiss grants—given since 1975—support “book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits, but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy.” The grant will go to my publisher, Cornell University Press, to support the large number of high quality images in the book, like the remarkable image of Baku’s urban modernization below, from the National Archives of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Replanning the City of Baku photo series, documenting the removal of houses along Iur’evskaia Street on July 5, 1928. The width of the street is measured by more than a dozen figures who stand in a single line across the clearing. Orthogonal buildings line the cleared path of movement through the Nargornyi Region. Photo: L. Bregadze. Azərbaycan Respublikası Dövlət Kino-Foto Sənədləri Arxivi (Azerbaijan State Film and Photo Documents Archive), Inv. 5-378.