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First edition.Rare in such condition.This picture book about an old man and his pets was created by an artist, writer, art theorist and one of the 'founding fathers' of the Moscow Conceptualist artistic movement Viktor Pivovarov (born 1937). He studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute under Pavel Korin. As well as some others avant-garde artists since 1930s illustrated children's books to stay away from repressions, Pivovarov did the same in 1960-1970s. Since late 1960s he worked in the Detskaya Literatura publishing house where he met representatives of the 'Lianozovo group' Igor Kholin and Genrikh Sapgir, and through them, Ovsei Driz and Ilya Kabakov. Pivovarov was also part of the Sretensky Boulevard Group, a loosely associated community of artists with neighbouring studios in Moscow that included Ilya Kabakov and Erik Bulatov. In 1982 the artist moved to Prague.The book is from the children's collection of Inna Shmeleva (1929-2020), an artist, who studied under Ely Bielutin, the founder of The… Read More

First edition. Very rare, especially in such condition.This is the collection of verses by poet, translator, one of the leaders of the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement and member of the first postwar underground community of artists and poets known as the 'Lianozovo Group' Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999). He's considered as one of the most exciting innovative poets of the 1960-70s. His biographer and friend David Shrayer-Petrov called Sapgir an 'avant-garde classic' and compared Sapgir's verses to the experiments of Khlebnikov, Kharms and Lewis Carroll. The poet was unable to publish any of his original work for adults in the USSR until 1989.Book design was prepared by the artists and classic painters of the unofficial art of the 1960-80s Eric Bulatov (born 1933) and Oleg Vassiliev (1931-2013). They studied at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow and later worked in close collaboration as a children's book illustrators. In the 1960s Bulatov formed the Sretensky Boulevard Group with Ilya Kabakov, Edik… Read More

First edition. The only edition with these illustrations. The book is devoted to the solar energy and how it may be converted directly into electricity. It was illustrated by the Estonian artist, one of the most famous representatives of the Second Russian avant-garde, Ülo Sooster (1924-1970). In 1944, he was mobilized to the German army, but deserted. After the end of the war, he studied at the Tartu Art College, but in 1949 Sooster was arrested and deported to the Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp (Karlag). In 1956, he was released and rehabilitated. The artist moved to Moscow, worked as an illustrator and got close to the underground culture (he shared a workshop with Ilya Kabakov). Sooster is considered as the first Russian surrealist. The artist participated in the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artist at the Central Exhibition Hall (Manège) which was severely criticized by Nikita Khrushchev. The book is from the children's collection of Inna Shmeleva (1929-2020), an artist, who… Read More

First and only edition.Inscribed by the art editor N. Kholodovskaya: "Inesiku o[t] / Natashi" [To Inna from Natasha.]. These verses by the Soviet Yiddish poet Shike (Ovsei) Driz (1908-1971) were masterfully translated by Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999), one of the leaders of the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement and member of the underground 'Lianozovo Group'.The book was illustrated by an artist, writer, art theorist and one of the 'founding fathers' of the Moscow Conceptualist artistic movement Viktor Pivovarov (born 1937). He studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute under Pavel Korin. As well as some others avant-garde artists since 1930s illustrated children's books to stay away from repressions, Pivovarov did the same in 1960-1970s. Since late 1960s he worked in the Detskaya Literatura publishing house where he met representatives of the 'Lianozovo group' Igor Kholin and Genrikh Sapgir, and through them, Ovsei Driz and Ilya Kabakov. It's interesting that this book includes the portrait of Ovsei… Read More