Pelshe (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In Russian. Pelshe, Arvid Yanovich. Lenin's course under the banner of October. Moscow: Politizdat, 1975. All images are for identification of editions only. Several books of the same edition may be available. Please feel free to request photos of available books.SKU7008500.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarto 27x18cm., wrappers, 79(1) pp. Year 3, No. 3. 3000 copies. Sovetskoe iskusstvo was published from 1925 to 1929. It drew on some of the top-notch artists, writers and musicians and covered all aspects of modernist art, including from abroad. Its contributors include Lunacharskii, N. Maslennikov, N. Roslavets, Pel'she, A. Sidorov, S.M. Trekt'iakov, inter alia. The present issue looks at Ukrainian modernist painters and designers (Pal'mov, Meller, Shekhtman, Holostenko etc), Graphic Art in the USSR 1917-1927(Chekhonin, Lebedev, Annenkov et al), New German Art (Dix, Grosz, Lemburg), Robert Fal'k, theatrical and musical events (Prokofiev and Medtner visits), and more, richly illustrated throughout in b/w. An important document of the liberal wing of art and culture. Quite uncommon, with only two numbers in North American institutions.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarto 23.5x15.5 cm., wrappers, 166pp. 4000 copies. Robert Andreevich Pel'she (1880-1955) was a Soviet political figure, scholar and critic who became head of the arts section of the Central Committee of Political Education of the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR, editor of Sovetskoe iskusstvo and later director of the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore at the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences. This is written at the time of denouncing bourgeois notions of art for art's sake, and shrinking the focus of the arts towards a standardized Soviet culture. Includes illustrations of works by L. Popova, Klee, H. Compendonk, N. Goncharova, et al. Worldcat locates 6 institutions in North America holding this edition (Stanford, UNC, Yale, Amherst, Getty, Frick).