[RUSSIAN LITERATURE ? MODERNISM] Dom iskusstv [House of arts], vols. 1 and 2 (all published).

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St. Petersburg: 15-ia gosudarstvennaia tipografiia, 1921. Quartos (29.5 × 21.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 83 [2] and 136 [2] pp. With numerous plates on better stock. Light foxing and soil to wrappers; wrappers chipped to edges and spine; spines repaired with clear tape; still good or better. Complete run of a modernist literature and art journal edited by the top literary and artistic personalities of the period, including Maksim Gorky, Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, Evgenii Zamyatin, Nikolai Radlov, and Kornei Chukovskii. Wrapper design by the graphic artist and set designer Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, who was associated with "Mir Iskusstva" (World of Art) prior to the Revolution. The journal was published by the organization of Petrograd artists Dom Iskusstv, which existed 1919?1923 as an artistic communal living project, where exhibitions, concerts, and readings were regularly organized. The first issue of the journal sparked controversy immediately on release for including articles by Evgenii Zamyatin *(?Ia boius?,? or "I am afraid"), in which he expressed the fear that the only future Russian literature has is its past. Anatoli Lunacharsky also criticized the ?Akhmatova and Mayakovsky? article by Kornei Chukovskii, where the author identified Akhmatova with the Russian literary past and Mayakovsky with its future, praising its past too highly. The issues include first publications of lyrics by Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam ("Ia slovo pozabyl, chto ia khotel skazat'"), Mikhail Kuzmin, Aleksei Remizov, Viacheslav Khodasevich, Aleksandr Blok, reproductions of works by Zinaida Serebriakova, Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, Boris Kustodiev, Sergei Chekhonin, V. Zamirailo, and others. The first volume was published in a print run of 5000. Because of the surrounding controversy, the second volume appeared in a print tun of only 500 copies, and is much less common as a result. Seslavinskii, Moi drug Osip Mandel'shtam, no. 72.As of December 2023, KVK, OCLC show print copies of the complete two volume set at Amherst, Wisconsin, Getty, Colorado, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The more common first volume is also held by Cambridge, Illinois, Berkeley. Seller Inventory # 53088

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