Illustrated throughout with examples from the British Library's extensive collections, and with a narrative chronology, Russian Avant-Garde Books is an important survey of Russian design and literature of the 1920s and 1930s. It emphasizes continuity with the preceding Futurist years and explores the development of graphic design and photomontage in books and journals about theater and architecture as well as in collections of poetry and prose by avant-garde writers, including the Constructivists. From the February Revolution of 1917 to the Soviet Writers' Conference of 1934, the Russian book was at the forefront of avant-garde movements, notably Mayakovsky's LEF - "Left Front of Art. With inventive typography, the use of photomontage, and graphic styles rivaling political posters, "worker artists" set commercial standards in the design of book covers that have rarely been surpassed. Among the best-known authors whose early books are represented here are the poets Pasternak, Kruchenykh, and Kamensky; the linguists Brik and Shklovsky; the filmmakers Eisenstein and Vertov; the theoretician Arvatov; and the artists Zdanevich, Rodchenko, Stepanova, and Lavinsky. Susan Compton is an art historian and curator. She is author of The World Backwards: Russian Futurist Books 1912-16, which remains the standard reference on Russian avantgarde books of that period.

Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34

Arts & Photography

Compton, Susan

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

Guild edition, shelf wear to dust jacket. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Chagall

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Henry Moore

CORK, Richard

MOORE, Henry

Fuller, Peter

Reference

Orion Publishing Co

This study of Russian design and literature of the 1920s and 1930s emphasizes continuity with the preceding futurist years, and explores the development of graphic design and photomontage in books and journals about theatre and architecture, as well as collections of avant-garde writing.

Russian Avant-garde Books, 1917-1934

Literature & Fiction

British Library Board

Book by Chagall, Marc, Compton, Susan

Marc Chagall and the Jewish Theatre

CHAGALL, MARC

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Originally appeared in German as the catalogue the exhibition `Marc Chagall: Mein Leben--Mein Traum, Berlin und Paris 1922-1940'. Contains 159 plates, 80 in full color, and 330 black-and-white illustrations. Includes a catalogue of four cycles of etchings: `My Life', `Dead Souls', La Fontaine's `Fables', and the Bible. The introductory essay and the Chronology provide fresh insights into Chagall's life and work during these decisive years. 268 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

Marc Chagall: My Life, My Dream : Berlin and Paris 1922-1940

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Prestel Pub

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