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One of 1 000 copies printed.
In October 1928 the first art exhibition of Soviet domestic textiles opened in Moscow. Exhibitors included textile factories and their designers, schools, students, and working faculty members. After the Civil War Soviet people direly needed in the new functional clothing for every occasion such as industrial work clothes, sporting garments, or specialized labor uniforms. That's why the textile industry was among the most successful Soviet socialist economy enterprises. It was mostly female artist-designers, who were promoting productivism, scientific design and manufacturing for the socialist cause. For example, Lyudmila Mayakovskaya, textile designer, a pioneer of the "aerograph" technique of textile airbrushing and the elder sister of the poet V. Mayakovsky, and Varvara Stepanova, an artist and A. Rodchenko's wife, participated in this exhibition. Furthermore, Stepanova was the only avant-gardist designer entering the field of textiles at that time who had any… Read More

Tender original illustration for the first Russian translation of J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan: The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (issued in 1971). May Miturich (Miturich-Khlebnikov, 1925–2008) was a 'classic' of children's illustration and nephew of futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov. He studied under his father, an artist Petr Miturich and at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, where later he taught. In 2005 he was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. This second Russian edition of the play was the only edition with Miturich's illustrations. By repute the edition of 1971 was aimed for narrow audience only and was not circulated in shops and small libraries for next ten years.

One of 2 000 copies printed.
The Four Arts community united those artists who had exhibited with the pre-revolution associations Mir Iskusstva and Blue Rose. It was named Four Arts because it included painters, sculptors, graphic artists and architects (for example, Alexey Shchusev and Ivan Zholtovsky). The artists declared the value of individual and the necessity of preserving figurative culture. First exhibition of Four Arts was held in 1924 and the last one was in 1929. The community was joined to AKhRR (the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia) in 1931.Vera Mukhina, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Vladimir Favorsky and Martiros Saryan participated in this exhibition, which was opened in Russian museum in Leningrad. It was the only exhibition of The Four Art which held in Leningrad. We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in USA or European libraries via OCLC.
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One of 4 500 (# 22), 6 200 (# 3, 5) and 10 000 copies (others) printed.
Cover and typography design were prepared by Russian constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958). She was long-time partner of Alexander Rodchenko.She designed posters, books, magazines, and clothes. In 1919-1920 she was assistant director of the art and literature section of IZO Narkompros (The Department of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat for Education). Stepanova also led the textile department in VKhUTAMS (Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops). Issues from 1929 contains Stepanova's monogram "SV" on the front cover.
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In original illustrated photomotage wrappers. In good condition, minor losses on the spine, carefully repaired, cracks on the front cover, wear at the edges. Limited to 4 500 copies.IZORAM (Mass Organization of Komsomol Amateurs Art) appeared in 1925 in Leningrad as the Association of Visual Arts Groups for Young Workers to develop a new, avant-garde language of amateur arts and crafts, as amateurs artists used to imitate academic art. Worker's art groups (izoyadra) were led by professional artists which assured the high quality of the amateur IZOTAM productions. The association was disbanded in 1932 after the formation of the Artists Union. This book (the swan song of IZORAM) was prepared by Hungarian-born art critic and one of the members of October art group Ivan Matsa (1893-1974). The monography illustrated with photo of posters and tribune design for the Labor Day rally at Place Square in Leningrad (1931; right part with swastika symbol). It's interesting that the author compared IZORAM's… Read More

N.p., ca 1933.Extremely rare Russian abstract handmade paste paper from the 1930s.
Russian artist Mikhail Tarkhanov (1888-1962), a master of endpapers and bookbinding, created it. He used the special technique of surface painting onto paper with the paste mixture. Each one of them is unique. Paste papers, the oldest decorated papers used by bookbinders, are practically unknown in Russia. Mikhail Tarkhanov studied at the Stroganov School for Technical Drawing (which later became VKhUTEMAS) under Vladimir Favorsky and Wassily Kandinsky. Since the beginning of the 1930s abstract art was banned in the USSR. However, Tarkhanov made official works at the same time as his abstract compositions. Sometimes the book design was the only way to create in avant-garde style, as for writers translating became the only way to work as a man of letter in the USSR. Some Tarkhanov's works locates in the Getty Center. The endpaper is from Tarkhanov's private collection.

Ephemera from the exhibition Russian Samizdat Art held in Los Angeles in 1984. It was curated by Russian conceptualist artists Rimma and Valery Gelovin. The Gerlovins emigrated to the US in 1979.The show started in New York in 1982 and presented in many cities in the USA and Canada. For each place Gerlovins created new environment with the works. At the entrance to this exhibition were two border guards made from syringes. They are symbolized the atmosphere in which the artists worked in the Soviet Union. Exhibition included about 100 handmade books and artworks by Russian artists since the 1960s. OCLC locates only one copy of this ephemera, in MOMA.

One of 5 000 copies published.Very rare. The exhibit of the Stenberg Brothers' movie posters is presented for the first time.
In 1922, Vladimir Lenin famously stated, "...you must well remember that, of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important." Following nationalization of the movie industry in 1919, the first state-owned movie company, Goskino, was established in 1922 and later renamed Sovkino in 1924. The advertising department, Reklam Film, oversaw the design, approval, and distribution of posters for both foreign and Soviet films throughout the Soviet Union. Yakov Ruklevsky, the head of Reklam Film, enlisted talented young artists such as the Stenberg brothers, Vladimir and Georgii, who created movie posters from 1923 until Georgii's untimely death in 1933. Christopher Mount noted their significance, stating that they "organized the First Exhibition of Film Posters in Moscow in 1925" (Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design. New York, MoMA, 1997). Despite this,… Read More

One of 10 000 copies published.The issue includes photos by Arkady Shaikhet, Georgy Lipskerov, Abram Shterenberg, Dmitri Debabov and Ivan Shagin.Sovetskoe Foto magazine was issued with two pauses from 1926 to 1991 and included editorials, letters, articles, photographic essays and works by Soviet and international photographers, advertisements for photography, photographic processes, photographic chemicals and equipment.

One of 5 000 copies printed.
First life-time monograph about Hungarian painter Béla Uitz (1887-1972). He joined Lajos Kassák's avant-garde cicle in 1916. During Hungarian Republic of Councils he became a member of the Directorate of Art. In 1926 Uitz went to the Soviet Union and became a professor of VHUTEMAS. First Uitz exhibition in Russia took place in December 1926- January 1927. He was close to the most radical art groups in Moscow - "October" and The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhR). He created murals for theaters and government buildings in Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Russia. Many of his projects weren't realized. Uitz returned to Hungary in 1970. The book was edited by art historian János Mácza. He was born in Hungary and emigrated to the USSR in 1923. He taught at the Moscow State University and was the founder of the All-Union Association of Proletarian Architects. OCLC locates three copies in the US (New York Public Library, Frick Art Reference Library, Harvard… Read More

With Varvara Stepanova stamp on the back cover's turnover. Artist's copy.One of 10 000 copies published.
Cover and typography design were prepared by Russian constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958). She was a long-time partner of Alexander Rodchenko. The stamp contains their home and workshop address. The issue also contains posters and photomontage from Vladimir Mayakovsky's books by Alexander Rodchenko.