: "An original and lively look at 20th century avant-garde painting in the USSR...Director (Joseph) Pasternak, an orchestra conductor...approaches his subject with a real feeling for the visual and the joys of filmmaking. The Soviet avant-garde is traced from Russian constructivism to a brief flowering in the Krushchev years, stagnation under Brezhnev, and the current revival of interest...What impresses most about Black Square...is the way it links artist production to the changing political climate..." (Variety).