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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 218 pages. 10.98x8.27x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto 30.5x21.5 cm., original wrappers. 20 of 22 numbers all published (lacks 1931 No. 5 and 1932 No. 6). This journal was the Organ for the Association for Proletarian Artists (RAPKh) and was published from 1931-1932 as a continuation of Iskusstvo v massy, under the auspices of the Association of the Artists of the Revolution (AKhR), which appeared from 1929-1930. In 1930 the right-wing art sector, including self-taught and younger students fresh out of Vkhutein, eager to jettison the bourgeois notion of high art altogether, coalesced here in the seminal Project of a Platform Consolidating Proletarian Forces, which served as the basis for the journal to be published in the coming months. The journal defined itself as an abrupt shift from an experimental period of abstraction and individual exploration which came under criticism as formalist. In its place the RAPKh embraced a ruder people's art, less refined which the worker would easily understand. It aligned itself with LEF, at least theoretically, and it employed the constructivist design principles which still reigned in architecture and graphic design. The journal includes all manner of visual art, industrial design and textiles, painting, sculpture, book production and poster art. Artists such as Klutsis, Moor, Deneika, even Filonov occasionally grace the pages with a host of new talents exploring the next steps of engaging a socialist society and common visual language. (The textile designs are, incidentally, wonderful). However, the journal was shut down in 1932 as a stricter Socialist Realism and Soviet classicism crystallized into state policy and increasing regimentation. An important document of this transitional period, richly illustrated throughout. Institutional holdings in North America of found in Univ Chicago, Amherst, Yale, Columbia, Ohio State and Getty. Condition: all copies fresh, very good+ to fine. Rare to also include the Platform, only found at Yale and Stanford.…