Favorski (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 255 pp. Illus. Spine, corners bumped. Jacket has edgewear. Rear hinge weak. Russian (Cyrillic) text. 2 page English language summary at the back. Heavy book. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Condition: Very good plus. First edition. First printing of this tragedy-farce by Soviet playwright, poet, and translator, with attractive cover and frontispiece art by multifaceted artist Vladimir Favorski. Russian graphic artist, art critic, and woodcut illustrator Vladimir Favorsky (also transliterated as Favorski) blended the traditional and the modern in his art. He helmed the Russian state art and technical school Vkhutemas - often compared in style and philosophy to Bauhaus - as rector during a tumultuous period in the 1920s, during which he resisted government efforts to mandate the artistic methods and styles of the students. Favorsky's perspective shines through in his extensive oeuvre of book illustrations; he was particularly fond of the codex as a vehicle for art, noting that "the book can serve simultaneously as an example of wholeness of design and variety of content" (Molok, 242). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original pictorial wrapper. Black and white frontispiece. 78 pages, unopened. Wrapper with mild toning, a bit of edgewear; a touch of bumping to corners and spine ends. Front hinge beginning to crack a little. Clean.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. First printing of this examination of the Moscow Revolutionary Theater, established in 1922 to stage productions that promoted Soviet ideology - with signed woodcut print by Vladimir Favorsky. Russian graphic artist, art critic, and woodcut illustrator Vladimir Favorsky (also transliterated as Favorski) blended the traditional and the modern in his art. He helmed the Russian state art and technical school Vkhutemas - often compared in style and philosophy to Bauhaus - as rector during a tumultuous period in the 1920s, during which he resisted government efforts to mandate the artistic methods and styles of the students. Favorsky's perspective shines through in his extensive oeuvre of book illustrations; he was particularly fond of the codex as a vehicle for art, noting that "the book can serve simultaneously as an example of wholeness of design and variety of content" (Molok, 242). Favorsky also dabbled in stage design, making him an ideal illustrator for this title. 10'' x 7''. Original printed brown boards. Original unclipped (10 ???) pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers of theater figures. Illustrated with numerous tipped-in plates in shades of brown, and black-and-white woodcuts. 222, [2] pages. Small bookplate of Jack Rau to front pastedown. Single leaf woodcut print of Maria Babanova, signed by Favorski, loosely laid in. Jacket with light chipping to spine ends, mild toning to spine and wear to joints; some edgewear. Binding with light edgewear, a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends. A couple tipped-in plates becoming loose, plate facing 215 detached but present. Clean and sound. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed.

Condition: Very good plus. First edition. Signed limited first edition thus, illustrated by Favorsky, of this Pushkin comic poem with a striking modern design. Russian graphic artist, art critic, and woodcut illustrator Vladimir Favorsky (also transliterated as Favorski) blended the traditional and the modern in his art. He helmed the Russian state art and technical school Vkhutemas - often compared in style and philosophy to Bauhaus - as rector during a tumultuous period in the 1920s, during which he resisted government efforts to mandate the artistic methods and styles of the students. Favorsky's perspective shines through in his extensive oeuvre of book illustrations; he was particularly fond of the codex as a vehicle for art, noting that "the book can serve simultaneously as an example of wholeness of design and variety of content" (Molok, 242). Favorsky designed this stylish edition of one of Pushkin's more lighthearted works to incorporate smaller drawings in the margins in addition to larger illustrations, to mimic the writer's distinctive marginalia. 11.25'' x 7.5''. Original pictorial boards. Illustrated in black and white. 22, [6] pages. Small gift inscription ftom "Jay" to "Jack," dated 1933. Signed by Favorski to limitation page and numbered 166 of 500. Binding with a bit of toning to edges, light bumping to corners ad spine ends; upper rear corner with a couple shallow creases. Spine cracked to one opening. Clean. Signed.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Moscou, 1923. Glz. Un volume in-8 broché. Couverture illustrée. Edition originale. Illustré de bois de Favorski. Couverture brunie par endroits. Bon état. Voir photos. GETTY no. 208, British Library Catalogue no. 120, Polonsky p. 290-291, Vhutemas p. 340.

FAVORSKI, V. URSS en Construction. Tadjikistan. 20th Year Number 2. [48] pp. Illustrated with a plethora of Russian photomontage images throughout. Folio, 415 x 300 mm, bound in original wrappers. Moscow: Editions d'Etat des Beaux-Arts, 1937. A fine copy of a typical issue of this landmark periodical, this one devoted to Tadjikistan. As Martin Parr says "from 1930-1940 URSS en Construction employed the best Soviet photo-journalists and graphic designers. Amongst the photographers were Max Alpert, Arkadi Shaikhet, Georgi Zeima, Boris Ignatovich, Semen Fridland and Georgi Shaikhet. Designers included El Lissitzky, Sophie Kueppers, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, and Nikolai Troshin who designed this issue and over forty others. All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitzky, Rodchenko and others -- the elaborate photomontages, innovative photography, fold-out pages, transparent overlays and so on -- were developed in URSS en Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century." It was published in Russian, French, English and German. This is the French version. In fine condition. Parr and Badger, The Photobook I, 148-149.