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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

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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 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