aleksandr strelkov (2 Ergebnisse)

The best survey of 20th-century Russian book illustration. 256 pp. 201 items thoroughly described, virtually all illustrated in color. ONE OF ONLY 37 COPIES OF THE DELUXE EDITION, ACCOMPANIED BY A PORTFOLIO OF 5 SIGNED ORIGINAL PRINTS, one each by Mikhail Karasik, Grigorii Katsnelson, Evgenii Strelkov, Aleksandr Stroilo, and Leonid Tishkov. Oblong 4to. Publisher's cloth (the trade edition was issued in wrappers), with the prints in a separate portfolio. FINE AND BRIGHT, AS NEW. Rare.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo 17.6x13 cm., wrappers, 30pp. 5000 copies. A survey of the art movement Mir Iskusstva which flourished from 1898 by art students in St. Petersburg with the intent to upgrade the level of Russian art from the low standards prevailing in the narrow nationalist Peredvizhniki (Wanderers) and introduce a Neo-Romanticism mixed with greater imaginative fairy tales, mystery and fantasy and open to an internationalist scope. This gave rise to a journal by the same name, financed by Bakst, Benois, and Diaghilev and the manifold contributions that arose under this banner. With 9 illustrations by Konstantin Somov, Alexandre Benois, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Leon Bakst, Ivan Bilibin, Alexandre Benois. Strelkov (1896-1939) was an art historian and archeologist who specialized in Central Asia, Iran, Hellenism and Egypt. He was arrested in the purges and executed in 1939. Published under the auspices of the series Iskusstvo. Near fine copy.