The Russian Avant Garde Book, 1910-1934

by Wye, Deborah; Rowell, Margit

• ISBN13: 9780810962248
• ISBN10: 0810962241
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Marked by bold innovations in graphic design combined with daring experimentation in poetry, Russian avant-garde books are at last receiving the accolades and scholarly attention they merit. This astonishing volume includes a diverse assortment of over 300 of these artist's books by Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Natalia Goncharova, among other well-known members of the Russian avant-garde.

Often handmade and hand-printed in limited editions, these works highlight an important gift to The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The more than 600 color illustrations are accompanied by incisive essays, a bibliography, and a checklist of the 1,200 items in the full collection.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Donor's Statement	p. 7
Art Issues/Book Issues: An Overview	p. 10
A Game in Hell, hard work in heaven: Deconstructing the Canon in Russian Futurist Books	p. 24
Primitivism in Russian Futurist Book Design 1910-14	p. 33
Kruchenykh contra Gutenberg	p. 41
Constructivist Book Design: Shaping the Proletarian Conscience	p. 50
Plates	p. 61
Checklist	p. 249
Selected Bibliography	p. 285
Index	p. 290
Acknowledgments	p. 301
Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art	p. 303
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