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Russian Avant-Garde Books: 1917-34
by Susan Compton
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
1–175 pp. Quarto [10 x 7¾], about 100 illustrations including 16 color plates on unnumbered pages, frontis, DJ, and endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, decorative endpapers, Fine book in Fine DJ. Contents: Preface; 1. The 1920s and 1930s: an introduction; 2. Writers and Designers: new partnerships; 3. Medium and Message: design, technique and content; 4. Theatre: a revolution in design; 5. Utopian Ideas in Art and Architecture; Notes; Select bibliography; index of illustrations; and index. Beautifully illustrated.
"Of all Soviet plays which Meyerhold produced The Bed Bug [клоп, here shown] has been revived most often. The plot, which was based on a filmscript written by Mayakovsky in 1927, required two styles of design. The first, for scenes set in the present, was carried out by the young cartoonists, . . . who chose most of the costumes and props from what was on sale in Moscow shops. The second, for an imaginary future world, was carried out by Rodchenko in what today would be called a 'science fiction' manner. The hero, a lapsed party-member named Prisypkin, disappeared in a fire which broke out during his drunken wedding orgy; his corpse was frozen and brought back to life by a future generation living 'ten Five Year Plans' hence."
"Of all Soviet plays which Meyerhold produced The Bed Bug [клоп, here shown] has been revived most often. The plot, which was based on a filmscript written by Mayakovsky in 1927, required two styles of design. The first, for scenes set in the present, was carried out by the young cartoonists, . . . who chose most of the costumes and props from what was on sale in Moscow shops. The second, for an imaginary future world, was carried out by Rodchenko in what today would be called a 'science fiction' manner. The hero, a lapsed party-member named Prisypkin, disappeared in a fire which broke out during his drunken wedding orgy; his corpse was frozen and brought back to life by a future generation living 'ten Five Year Plans' hence."
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- Bookseller
- Veery Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 103050
- Title
- Russian Avant-Garde Books
- Author
- Susan Compton
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth with gilt lettering, decorative endpapers
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- 1st American
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Mass.
- Date Published
- 1993
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Afinogenov, Agapov, Aleksandra Ekster, Aliagrov, Anarkhiia, And Yet the World Goes Round, Appia, architecture, Jean Arp, Art of the Commune, Nikolai Aseev, Averbakh, Isaak Babel, Barbusse, Andrei Bely, Bugaev, Aleksandr Blok, Sergei Bobrov, Li
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Books About Books; Russian Avant-Garde;
- Size
- Quarto [10 x 7¾]
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