Title The Russian avant-garde book, 1910-1934 / Margit Rowell, Deborah Wye ; with essays by Jared Ash ... [and others]

Published New York : Museum of Modern Art : distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 2002

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Description 304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm regular print Contents Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Donor's Statement / Harvey S. Shipley Miller -- Art Issues/Book Issues: An Overview / Deborah Wye -- A Game in Hell, hard work in heaven: Deconstructing the Canon in Russian Futurist Books / Nina Gurianova -- Primitivism in Russian Futurist Book Design 1910-14 / Jared Ash -- Kruchenykh contra Gutenberg / Gerald Janecek -- Constructivist Book Design: Shaping the Proletarian Conscience / Margit Rowell -- Plates -- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art Summary The focus of this study is the book format as produced by Russian avant-garde artists and poets from 1910 to 1934. This period saw a remarkable proliferation of books in which artists were involved, and such books played a fundamental role in the aesthetic thinking of the day. Radical new forms appearing in both painting and poetry in the teens, offered by a close-knit community of artists and poets, provided the impetus Notes Illustrations on endpapers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289) and index Subject Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Exhibitions. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Exhibitions. Illustration of books -- Soviet Union -- 20th century. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union -- Exhibitions. Book design -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Printing -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Illustration of books -- Soviet Union -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia -- Exhibitions. Art, Russian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Books -- Russia -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Literature, Experimental -- Russia -- Exhibitions. Book design -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century. Printing -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union. Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. History. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogues Author Wye, Deborah. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) LC no. 2001099288 ISBN 0810962241 : 0870700073

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