- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; illustrated edition edition (15 April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0870700073
- ISBN-13: 978-0870700071
- Product Dimensions: 28 x 25.5 x 4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 453,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This catalogue accompanies an exhibition that celebrates a gift to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, of a comprehensive collection of Russian avant-garde books produced between 1910 and 1934. The exhibition includes over 300 books designed by such artists as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitisky, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Natalia Goncharova. The catalogue includes over 600 colour illustrations of these remarkably diverse books, which were often collaborations between artists and poets; essays written by Deborah Wye, Margit Rowell, Jared Ash, Gerald Janacek and Nina Gurianova; a checklist of the more than 1,200 items in this historic gift; and a comprehensive bibliography and index. The literal English translations of some of the books are compelling enough: Drunken Cherries, Tango with Cows: Ferro-concrete Poems, Lacquered Tights, Melancholy in a Robe, As Simple as Mooing, Secret Vices of Academicians, A Head Alone is Prone to Moan and Moans Because It Is Alone, A Little Duck's Nest...of Bad Words. The subject matter is wide and varied, from Judaica to children's books. The original works were produced in limited print runs or from a few hundred to a thousand copies.Many were hand made, hand printed and had the art hand stamped.
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The Russian Avant-Garde book, 1910Š1934, 28 Aug 2002
By Michael Webb - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Russian Avant-Garde Book: 1910-1934 (Hardcover)
This companion volume to a major MoMA exhibition is a treasury for graphic designers and bibliophiles, but it also provides a fascinating portrait of artists who began by spitting in the eye of the bourgeosie, became zealous stalwarts of the revolution, and finally reverted to the status of outsiders, as StalinÕs apparatchiks snuffed out every trace of invention. The earliest work has a child-like spontaneityÑcrude sketches on cheap paper illustrating tiny editions of poetsÕ work. ThereÕs a gradual shift to abstraction in the work of such masters as El Lissitsky and Rodchenko, and finally a slide into the banality of socialist realism. A fascinating portrait of artistic struggle and defeat.
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A Wealth of Illustration, 4 Jan 2003
By marco santopietro "silkscream" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Russian Avant-Garde Book: 1910-1934 (Hardcover)
The book is rich in showcasing and reproducing the Russian Avant-Garde books. In some, it included reproduction of contents of some of the books. For those who miss the exhibition from which this book springs forth, it is a wonderful and well-documented catalog. The book also contains the exhibition's division of the Soviet book era into three different times, each accompanied by one or several essays. Like any good book, it is also preceded by a general discussion of bookarts, and the difference between livre d'artiste and artist's book.
To the contemporary eyes, some of the books featured may not be anything special, but by putting them in context of the time, one will see the daring nature and the revolutionary spirit of these books and their makers.
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Excellent!!!!!, 31 Dec 2005
By File9 "zod7of9" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Russian Avant-garde Books 1910-1934 (Hardcover)
This is a hefty volume a large thick 8vo, which is worth every penny spent on it. It's a visual delight, and jam-packed with alot of images, you will not be disappointed.
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