The George Costakis Collection: Russian Avant-Garde Art
by George Costakis; Angelica Zander Rudenstine [ed.]; [et al.]
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0810915561
- ISBN 13
- 9780810915565
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1981. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981. First Edition. Quarto (30x26x4.5cm); 527pp, including chronology and index. Illustrated with 1201 images; including 632 color plates.
Illustrated dustjacket; cream cloth-covered boards with red and black stamping on spine and front panel. Jacket shows slight storage scuffs to coating.
Costakis's immense and era-defining collection of Russian avant-garde pieces, started in the 1940s, became one of the most important in the world and is now in Thessaloniki. Among the artists represented: Chagall, Goncharova, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Malevich, Poliakoff, Popova, Rodchenko, Stenberg, and Tatlin. There are many more. And the movements? Suprematism, Constructivism, Russian Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Neo-Primitivism, Fauvism, Surrealism-and whatever label fits the work of dreamy Monsieur Chagall.
Illustrated dustjacket; cream cloth-covered boards with red and black stamping on spine and front panel. Jacket shows slight storage scuffs to coating.
Costakis's immense and era-defining collection of Russian avant-garde pieces, started in the 1940s, became one of the most important in the world and is now in Thessaloniki. Among the artists represented: Chagall, Goncharova, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Malevich, Poliakoff, Popova, Rodchenko, Stenberg, and Tatlin. There are many more. And the movements? Suprematism, Constructivism, Russian Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Neo-Primitivism, Fauvism, Surrealism-and whatever label fits the work of dreamy Monsieur Chagall.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10748
- Title
- The George Costakis Collection: Russian Avant-Garde Art
- Author
- George Costakis; Angelica Zander Rudenstine [ed.]; [et al.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0810915561
- ISBN 13
- 9780810915565
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
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