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Octavo 17.2x13.2 cm., wrappers, 36 pp., edition of 2000 copies. Cover design by G. Chikhladze. Daisali (Ivane Sergos vua Babuadze, 1901-1937) was a Georgian nationalist poet who was the founder and leader of the Somnambulist group of modernist poets during the years of Georgian independence (1917-1922). Sometime after the Soviets assumed control of Georgia, the group was seen as having ties with the Mensheviks and was suppressed. He was arrested numerous times in the 1920s as a subversive for protesting state suppression, jailed in 1929 and exiled for three years to Arkhangelsk in Northern Russia. Either murdered or a suicide sometime up to 1937, he was rehabilitated in 1968 The remarkable cover art was done by Gregol Chikhladze, of which nothing is known; it's assumed among historians that this is a pseudonym. With the author's autograph. Rare, no worldcat holdings found.

Octavo 15x10.5 cm., illustrated wrappers, 64pp., 1500 copies. Beno Gordeziani (1894-1975) was an artist, editor, and author of many works on Georgian art history. He was one of the founders of the Futurist H2SO4 group, along with Imrakli Gamrekeli and Nikoloz Ch'ach'ava . This is an early monograph on Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918), an impoverished primitivist painter who became an inspiration for Georgian modernism and avant-garde through the efforts of Il'ia and Kirill Zdanevich, and later embraced by all Georgians as a national icon. He was championed in the West through the promotional efforts of Iliazd through his books published in Paris. The book includes b/w illustrations of Pirosmanashvili's works and was released in a small edition. Rare: OCLC, KVK finds no holdings worldwide. Very good with personal owner stamp on title page.

Quarto 25.5 x 20.5 cm., wrappers, 57(6) pp., 16 sheets with reproductions. Kakabadze cover design, typography by I. Karseladze. No. 452 of 500 (complete series 510) numbered copies on Outhenin Chalandre fils machine-made laid paper (ten copies printed on Japan). The first publication devoted exclusively to Kakabadze and the in Georgian language. while he resided and worked in Paris.. David (Davit) Kakabadze (1889-1952) was one of the most important Georgian modernists of great originality. He was a visionary, decidedly modernist but eluding classification into a school. This work reviews his work in Paris over four years and traces his development from figurative realism and Georgian visual motifs into biomorphic abstraction and a thoroughly mature voice. While in Paris, Kakabadze lectured on art and wrote theoretical treatises; he was also a noted scholar. He was intrigued by kinetic art and cinematography. This book discusses a stereoscopic projector for 3-D images he invented, also reproduced here.… Read More

The first book of Georgian Dada, by Grigol Tsetskhladze (1894-1976), who introduced dada literature in the Georgian language.. Cover design by Imrakli Gamrekeli, the foremost modernist and graphic designer of the Georgian avant-garde. These are his first poetic statements employing dadaist elements. Soon Tsetskhladze would become a spokesman for Synthetism, forswearing Futurism, Symbolism and other modernist movements as obsolete for a new activist vision. This copy good, cover portrait clear, covers restored with backing, chipped edge on pages throughout.