The Russian Avant Garde Book, 1910-1934 - Hardcover

Wye, Deborah; Rowell, Margit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810962241 ISBN 13: 9780810962248

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Kasimir Malevich was born in Kiev, Russia in 1878, the eldest of 14 children, four of whom died in childbirth. He claims to have begun exhibiting his work in 1898, but 1905 is his first exhibition on record, a joint show of Moscow and Kursk artists. In 1915 he exhibited his first Suprematist paintings at the 0.10 Last Futurist Exhibition, and continued to produce Suprematist works and manifestos well into the next decade. He held posts at the Vitebsk School of Art, the State Institute of Artistic Culture in Leningrad, the State Institute of the History of the Arts, and the Kiev Institute of Art, and was one of the founders and leaders of UNOVIS. Malevich died in 1935; the site of his ashes is marked by a white cube and a black square.

From Publishers Weekly:

Rare, handmade and handprinted books illustrated by Aleksandr Rodchenko, Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, Varvara Stepanova, Natalia Gonchorova and other revolution-era luminaries are stunningly reproduced in The Russian Avant-Garde Book: 1910-1934. The volume accompanies a spring 2002 exhibition of the same name at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Edited by MoMA guest curator Margit Rowell and MoMA Department of Prints and Illustrated books curator Deborah Wye, the book features revolutionary propaganda pamphlets, futurist broadsheets, children's books and illustrated volumes of the work of Mayakovsky and Walt Whitman, among others.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0810962241
• ISBN 13: 9780810962248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296