Search Results: Russian Avant Garde from Design Books

Moscow, Russia: ScanRus, [Moscow,, 2002. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine clear acetate dust wrapper with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in English and Russian. Limited edition of 500 copies. History of the Aidan Gallery in Moscow which is run by the artist Aidan Salakhova. Illustrated mostly in color. List of artists who have exhibited at the gallery. 11" high X 9" wide, 142 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Limited Edition. 500 Copies.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

St. Petersburg / San Francisco : Apollon , 1993. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in Russian and English. "This catalog is based on Alek Rapoport's 1993 Manege exhibit in St. Petersburg, Russia." Introduction by Michail Trofimenkov. Texts by John Bowlt, Peter Selz, Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Franco Miele, Mikhail Borgman, Helena Kozhina, Mikhail Koulakov, Paul Quin, Sonya Melnikova Lavigne, Alexander Glezer, Michael Dunev, Mary Wasowiak, Robert Reynolds, and Alek Rapoport. Illustrated in black & white and color. 8" square, 73 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Moscow: Sov. Khudozhnik, 1988. This is a very good or better softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in Russian. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Gosudarstvennyi tsentralnyi teatralnyi muzei imeni A.A. Bakhrushina, in 1988. Checklist with 101 works catalogued with lengthy entries. Chronology. Bibliography. Illustrated in color with 28 full page color plates + many black & white plates. Also a number of vintage b/w photographs from the 1920's reproduced in the text. 11" high X 9" wide, 101 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Moscow: Sov. Khudozhnik, 1973. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Very clean, but a few marks to the half title-page, small gray smudges. Otherwise completely clean throughout. Text in Russian. Alexei Ilich Kravchenko (1889- 1940), was a Russian painter, illustrator, draughtsman and printmaker. Though Kravchenko first gained recognition as a romantic painter, he was best known during his lifetime as a book illustrator and graphic artist. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Moscow in 1973. It covered his paintings, drawings and book illustrations. 7 color plates + 23 black & white plates. Checklist. 9" high X 7" wide, 39 text pages + plates + checklist. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: A La Vieille Russie, 1993. This is a near fine softcover copy with minor wear to corners. Completely clean. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at A La Vieille Russie in New York in May to June 1993. Introduction by Mark A. Schaffer. Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (also spelt Iacovleff or Yakovlev, Russian (1887- 1938) was a Russian neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher. Bibliography. Exhibition history. 71 works in the exhibition. All illustrated, several in color. 10" high X 8" wide, 47 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, , 1983. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean. Small London bookseller's ticket on inside front cover. Illustrated in black & white with photographs, documents + some color plates. Stated first edition. Bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide, 342 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Leningrad, Russia : Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1970. This is an about very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear. Very clean inside and out. Some spotting to toned spine of jacket. Possibly from a private library, but bearing no marks or numbers. There is evidence of a bookplate or possibly pocket removal on the rear endpaper. Otherwise completely clean. Pale yellow silk pagemark present. Text in Russian. Three page summary and list of plates in English. Illustrated in color and black & white. Monograph on the Russian Jewish artist Anatoly L'vovich Kaplan (1902-1980). Born in the Jewish settlement of Pale, in Russia, he lived all his life in Russia, dying in Leningrad in 1980. He concentrated on Jewish themes, illustrated Sholem Aleichem's books, also Gogol's Dead Souls. 9" square, 239 pages. Heavy book foreign shipping may be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Moscow: AZ Museum , 2014. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in Russian and English. Essay by Polina Lobachevskaya, curator of the exhibition. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the new AZ Museum in Moscow in 2014. The exhibition presented the works by Alexander Zverev that were given to the museum by George Costakis' daughter Aliki Costakis. George Costakis, well known as a collector of Russian constructivist works, also collected works by the Russian artists of his time. This activity included collecting hundreds of paintings and drawings by Anatoly Zverev (1931- 1986) a member of the non-conformist movement and a founder of Russian Expressionism in the 1960s. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Illustrations on almost every page. 8" high X 6" wide, unpaginated but about 200 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Wash. D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. The front endpaper reproduces a photograph of Archipenko in his studio, two small scraped spots on the endpaper, otherwise fine. Edited by Donald Karshan. Essay by Guy Habasque. Illustrated in black & white with many photographs of sculptures and Archipenko with colleagues and friends, etc. Biographical chronology. 10" high X 9" wide, 116 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Koln: Galerie Alex Lachmann , 1995. This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English and German. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Galerie Alex Lachmann from April 4 to June 30, 1995. Essay by Margarita Tupitsyn. This catalog is one of the only monographs available on Arkadij Schaichet. This exhibition was the first one to appear in Europe. The exhibition presents his work from the 1920's through the late 1930's. He is known to photography specialists from his contributions to the German publication of the period: AIZ, which John Heartfield also worked for, producing many memorable covers. 70 works illustrated in black & white in this catalog. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 119 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Tashkent: Gafura Guliama, 1987. This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside, blue cloth covers are titled in gilt a bit faded. Text in Russian, English and Uzbek. Monograph on the book illustrators of Uzbekistan. Illustrations on practically every page in black & white, many in color. 14" high X 9" wide, 236 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Paris: Galerie Dina Vierny, 1973. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Galerie Dina Vierny in Paris in May and June 1973. Preface by Dina Vierny. Artists include: Maxime Arhangelsk, Vladimir Yankilevski, Ilya Kabakov, Éric Boulatov, and Oscar Rabin. All these artists are in the so-called 'Second Wave' of Russian avant garde artists. They also all emigrated to France where they continued to live and work. Illustrated throughout in black & white with some color plates. Essays on each artist by Vierny. 11" high X 9" wide, about 80 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Moscow: Izd Sov. Khudozhnik , 1982. This is a very good hardcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Russian. Standard reference for this artist. Boris Kustodiev (1878- 1927) was a Russian painter and stage designer. He studied under Ilya Repin and became his assistant. He also joined the group 'Mir Iskusstva' (World of Art). Illustrated lavishly in color. 2901 works catalogued here. Almost the catalogue raisonne for Kustodiev. Chronology. Bibliography. Scarce. 12" high X 10" wide, 453 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Munich, Germany: Heering Publishers , 1981. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in English. This issue of Camera, No. 6 June 1981, has a long article on Russian Photography between the World Wars 1917-1941, with text by Daniela Mrazkova and Vladimir Remes. Illustrated in black & white. Biographical sketches of the dozen photographers. 11" high X 9" wide, 48 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977. This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. A short date notation in ink on the front cover upper left corner, otherwise completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby Parke Bernet on December 15, 1977. Sale number: 4063. The sale consisted of ballet and theater material. 127 lots in the sale. All illustrated, some color. Prices realized sheet included. 9" square. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

St. Petersburg, Russia: Palace Editions, 1995. This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Back cover scratched. Completely clean. Text in Russian and English. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the museum in St. Petersburg in 1995. Essays by Elena Basner and Nina Vasilyeva. Illustrated in color throughout with 62 large color plates + many black & white images in the text. Bibliography. Exhibition checklist with 107 works catalogued. 12" high X 9" wide, This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Sotheby's, 1995. This is a very good softcover copy with some wear. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's London on December 14, 1995. Sale code: LN5746 "DIAGHILEV". The sale consisted of property from the late Lord Howard of Henderskelfe, Castle Howard. Generally clean, but hammer prices have been inked in for all lots. Illustrated in color. Short essays on principal designers. 118 lots. 11" high X 8" wide, 133 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Oxford, England: Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 1982. This is a good softcover reference copy with the last 10 pages creased at the lower edge and corner. Completely clean inside. This is an exhibition catalog. Edited by John Hoole. Texts by Daniela Mrazkova and Vladimir Remes. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Surveys the work of about 16 photographers working in the period 1900 to 1939. Thumbnail biographical sketches of the artists. 11" high X 8" wide, 87 pages. . Soft Cover. Good.

Moscow: Tretyakov Gallery , 1996. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Russian. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition from December 1996-January 1997 at the Tretyakov Gallery. The catalog is titled 'Eve Pavlovna Levin-Rozengolts (1898-1975). Collection materials. catalog exhibition works'. Essays by several authors including Y. B. Bruk and B. H. Sharabaeva. Illustrated with 24 images in black & white + 20 color plates + several vintage b/w photographs of the artist and colleagues. Chronology. Exhibition history. Checklist of the exhibition with 340 works catalogued. Bibliography. 8" square, 95 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

St. Petersburg, Russia, 1996. This is a near fine hardcover copy in red cloth with gilt title on the front cover (in Russian) and two embossed abstract images. Text in Russian and English. Completely clean inside and out. Limited edition of 400 copies. Printed on tan paper. Prepared to accompany exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Russia of Sergei Bugaev, Tommi Gronlund and Petteri Nisunen. Illustrated in black & white with photographs and drawings. Essays by Olessia Tourkina, Mika Hannula, Sergei Bugaev and Viktor Mazin. 8" high X 6" wide, 73 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine.