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(ANDREEVNA #A6594)
ANDREEVA, EKATERINA. SOTS Art: Soviet Artists of the 1970s and
1980s 4to, papered bds., d.j. New. (Pub. at $39.95) Craftsman
House. 104 pp., 47 illus., most full-page color, bibliog., list
of illus. Komar and Melamid, Bulatov, Sokov, Kabakov, Kosolopov,
Prigov, et al. 4to, cloth, d.j. Craftsman House, 1995.
Fine/Fine. $22.00.
(Aperture #A8373)
Aperture. Aperture No. 77 (1976). This issue includes special 16
photograph spread on JOSEF KOUDELKA, many double-page. 4to,
wrps. 1976. About fine. $22.00.
(Aperture #A3748)
Aperture. No. 116 (Fall 1989). Special issue: Photostroika: New
Soviet Photography. Includes: LYALYA KUZNETOSOVA's Scenes of
Gypsy Life; I. Gavrilov, Elena Darikovich, F. Infante, V.
Koleichuk, K. Suur, V. Zotov, and a dozen others; roundtable
interview with 4 Soviet filmmakers. 4to, wrps. Light crease rear
cover, else near-fine. $16.00.
(BEERZEL #A3509)
BEERZEL. ICAT- Belgium. Masters of the Late 20th Century.
Unpaginated (76 pp.) exhib. cat., 91 color plates, biogs. Work
by ten lesser-known young Soviet painters, including: G.
Baimatov, M. Stjirov, S. Zaitsev, B. Djalal, I. Volnova, I.
Tzoezikov, A. Waldman, A. Nasritdinov, B. Juldashev, A.
Esdouletov. 4to, stiff wrps. Beerzel, B.V.B.A., 1993. Fine.
$15.00.
(BERN #A6864)
BERN. Kunstmuseum. Ich Lebe, Ich Sehe: Kunstler der achtziger
Jahre in Moskau. 256 pp., 193 illus., 55 in color, 61 photos of
artists. Ed. by Hans Christoph von Tavel and Markus Landert.
Stout 4to, wrps. 1988. About fine. $49.50.
(BIRD #A1900)
BIRD, ALAN. A History of Russian Painting. 303 pp., 135 b&w
illus., 16 full page color plates. 4to, cloth, d.j. First
edition. London, Phaidon, 1987. Fine/Fine. $55.00.
(BOWN #A3293)
BOWN, MATTHEW CULLERNE. Art Under Stalin. 256 pp., 185 illus.,
artists' biogs., bibliog., index. The first major survey of the
art and architecture of the Stalinist era (1932-53). Small 4to,
cloth, d.j. New York, Holmes & Meier, 1991. Mint. $35.00.
(BUDAPEST #A2796)
BUDAPEST. Soros Foundation Fine Art Documentation Center. Modern
and Contemporary Hungarian Art: Bulletin 1985-1990. 132 pp., 70
color plates. Texts by Lajos Nemeth, Miklos Peternak. 48 recent
Hungarian artists are represented in this selection; bios.,
exhibs., colls. & artist's statement for each. Useful list of
exhibs. featuring Hungarian art outside of Hungary during these
years. 4to, stiff wrps, d.j. (as issued). 1991. Fine/Near-fine
(slight rubbing upper edge of d.j. with tiny closed tear head of
spine.) $28.00.
(COLOGNE #A4658)
COLOGNE. Galerie Gmurzynska. MALEVICH - SUETIN - CHASHNIK. 311
pp., over 200 illus. and photos, including 100 excellent color
plates, appendix of artists' statements and letters, bibliog.,
glossary. Text by Vassily Rakitin in German with brochure
containing English and French translation laid in. Sq. stout
4to, sewn, in laminated papered boards. 1992. New copy with
lightly rubbed corners. $65.00.
(COLUMBUS #A3412)
COLUMBUS. Museum of Art. The Quest for Self-Expression: Painting
in Moscow and Leningrad 1965-1990. 191 pp., 94 illus., mostly
excellent full-page color plates. Biogs. of 41 artists, brief
bibliog., index. Substantial texts by John E. Bowlt and Elena
Kornetchuk. Important catalogue. 4to, stiff wrps. 1990. New.
$25.00.
(COMPTON #A7682)
COMPTON, SUSAN. Russian Avant-Garde Books, 1917-34. 175 pp., 86
b&w illus., 16 color plates, notes, bibliog., index of illus.,
general index. Excellent reference work. Large 8vo, cloth, d.j.
Cambridge, MIT Press, 1993. Fine/Fine. $30.00.
(ELLIOT #A4793)
ELLIOTT, DAVID. New Worlds: Russian Art and Society 1900-1937.
160 pp., 323 sepia and b&w illus., bibliog., index. The
political background to the cultural transformation of the arts.
Many interesting historic photos. 4to, wrps. New York, Thames
and Hudson, 1986. New. (Pub. at $19.95). $17.95.
(FAUCHEREAU #A2550)
FAUCHEREAU, SERGE, ed. Moscow 1900-1930. 275 pp., 295 illus., 83
in color. Texts by Fauchereau, A.Lischke, E.Rakitina, N.
Simsolo, A.Turowski, S.Zadora on painting, sculpture,
literature, theater, architecture, cinema. 4to, cloth, d.j.
London, Alpine, 1988. Mint. $35.00.
(FORT WORTH #A3100)
FORT WORTH. Modern Art Museum. 10+10: Contemporary Soviet and
American Painters. 170 pp., 71 full-page color plates,
statements, biogs., exhibs., bibliog. for each of 20 artists.
Texts by John E. Bowlt, Victor Misiano. Dual lang.
English/Russian. Women artists include: APRIL GORNIK, ANNETTE
LEMIEUX, REBECCA PURDUM. Square 4to, stiff wrps. 1989. Fine.
$17.50.
(FRATER #A8238)
FRATER, ZOLTAN and PETOCZ ANDRAS. Medium-Art: Valogatas a magyar
experimentaliskolteszetbol (Selection of Hungarian Experimental
Poetry). 276 pp. includes 6 pp. text and biographies of
contributors in Hungarian and English, over 200 illus. (many in
color) of these pictorial collage poems, 24 performance photos.
Small 4to, wrps. Budapest, Magveto Konyvkiado, 1990. Near-fine.
$25.00.
(FRYS #A6337)
FRYS, EWA, ANNA IRACKA, and MARIAN POKROPEK. Folk Art in Poland.
351 pp., 453 illus., many in color, huge bibliog., index of
geographical names, index of names. Covers everything from
architectural decoration to bread sculptures. A handsome
publication. Sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. Warsaw, Arkady, 1991.
Fine/Fine. $65.00.
(FUKSIEWICZ #A8188)
FUKSIEWICZ, JACEK. Polish Cinema. 166 pp., 40 illus., 8 in
color, list of awards, critical text, biogs and filmogs. of
directors. In English. 12mo, wrps. Warsaw, Interpress, 1973.
Near-fine crisp copy. $16.00.
(GOULDING #A2400)
GOULDING, DANIEL J. Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience.
190 pp., numerous b&w illus., notes, bibliog., index. Covers the
period 1945-83, including many films and directors unknown in
the U.S. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First edition. Bloomington, Indiana
Univ. Press, 1985. Slight dents upper edge, else crisp near-fine
copy in edge-worn d.j. $25.00.
(GOULDING #A2567)
GOULDING, DANIEL J., ed. Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe. 317 pp., numerous b&w illus.,
bibliog., indices of film titles, names. Critical texts by
Lawton, Leonhard, Turaj, Paul, Holloway, and Goulding. 8vo,
wrps. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1989. New. $16.00.
(GREWENIG #A2226)
GREWENIG, MEINRAD, PAWET SOSNOWSKI and RYSZARD STANISLAWSKI.
Polen Zeit Kunst/Polska Czas Sztuka: Anna Beller, Adam Brincken,
Tomasz Ciecierski, Jaroslaw Modzelewski, Wlodzimierz Pawlak,
Zbigniew Salaj, Leon Tarasewicz, Waldemar Umiastowski. 2 vols.
I: 119 pp. exhib. cat., 10 b&w, 55 color plates, text in German;
II: 61 pp. Polish translation of German text. Biogs. and
statements by eight major contemporary Polish painters about
their work as well as informative intro. texts on modern art in
Poland. 4to, wrps. Sankt Augustin, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and
Mainz, Philipp von Zabern, 1990. New. $45.00.
(GROYS #A3803)
GROYS, BORIS. The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde,
Aestheitic Dictatorship, and Beyond. 126 pp., notes with
bibliog. Trans. from German. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First Eng. lang.
ed. Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1992. New. (Pub. at
$19.95) $15.00.
(HALEVY #A1386)
HALEVY, DANIEL. Courrier d'Europe. 318 pp. collected essays
including "Le Voyage polonais," "Le Voyage anglais," "Peintres
francais a Londres," "La France jugee" et al. 4to, cloth. Paris,
Bernard Grasset, 1933. Ex Libris: bookplate, stamp, card pocket.
$18.00.
(LAMAC #A4074)
LAMAC, MIROSLAV. Cubisme Tcheque. 279 pp, hundreds of illus.,
132 excellent color plates, biographies of the artists, notes,
chronol., bibliog., index. Six critical texts on all aspects of
the Czech blend of cubism and expressionism with a focus on the
foremost 25 artists. An important reference. In French. 4to,
cloth, d.j., in publisher's protective slipcase. Scarce. Paris,
Centre Georges Pompidou and Flammarion, 1992. Mint. $150.00.
(LAWTON #A2563)
LAWTON, ANNA. Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in our Time. 288 pp.,
34 b&w film stills, bibliog., filmog., index. State-of-the-art
discussion of the restructuring of the film industry, emergence
of independent production and the political thrust of the new
Soviet cinema. 8vo, wrps. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992. New.
$17.00.
(LAWTON #A2566)
LAWTON, ANNA, ed. The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in the
Soviet Cinema. 360 pp. The best collection in English of
critical articles on Soviet cinema from Potemkin to "after
Tartovsky." Thick 8vo, wrps. London and New York, Routledge,
1992. New. $22.50.
(LIVSHITS #A2909)
LIVSHITS, BENEDIKT. The One And A Half-Eyed Archer
(Polutoraglazyi strelets). 272 pp., 42 illus. Trans., edited,
and intro. by John E. Bowlt. The fascinating 1930 memoirs of
this poet/critic/member of the Russian Cubofuturist movement as
well as a futurist document in its own right. Numerous
references to GONCHAROVA, KLEBNIKOV, MALEVICH, et al 8vo, cloth,
d.j. Newtonville, Oriental Research Partners, 1977. Near-fine
crisp copy/near-fine d.j. Half of the text pages are a bit waved
(as from a problematic press run.) Faint stain on inside of back
panel of d.j. Price clipped. $48.00.
(LONDON #A4664)
London. Phillips. RUSSIAN ART. Sales cat. of 181 lots. 208 pp.,
more than 100 in color. Includes numerous works by Russian avant
garde women artists. 8vo, wrps. April 2, 1990. Near-fine.
$25.00.
(LOS ANGELES #A1971)
LOS ANGELES. County Museum of Art. The Avant-Garde in Russia
1910-1930: New Perspectives. 287 pp. richly illus. in b&w. Ed.
Stephanie Barron and Maurice Tuchman. 4to, wrps. Cambridge, MIT
Press, 1980. Fine. $30.00.
(LOS ANGELES #A4665)
LOS ANGELES. County Museum of Art. The Avant-Garde in Russia,
1910-1930. Symposium on Victory over the Sun, Soviet Silent Film
and the Avant-Garde. 30 pp., symposium program, essay by Robert
Rosen and summaries of "Victory Over the Sun" and 12 soviet
films. 4to, wrps. Fine. $12.00.
(MARSHALL #A3081)
MARSHALL, HERBERT. Masters of the Soviet Cinema: Crippled
Creative Biographies. 252 pp., 16 pp. b&w photos and illus.,
index. 8vo, cloth, d.j. London and Boston, Routledge, 1983.
Fine/Fine. $25.00.
(MOSCOW #A4666)
MOSCOW. International Conference. Russkii Avangard v Krugu
Europeiskoi Kultury (The Russian Avant-Garde within European
Culture). 198 pp. rotoprint of multi-disciplinary conference
papers (many with footnotes), by dozens of contributors, index.
In Russian. 4to, wrps. Ed. of 600. Moscow, 1993. V.G.+. $40.00.
(MOSCOW #A4662)
MOSCOW. Russian Museums. Vystavka Novykh Postuplenii Sovetskaia
Grafika ( Exhibition of New Acquisitions: Soviet Graphics). 128
pp., b&w illus., artists' biogs. Intro essay. In Russian. Small
8vo, wrps. 1991. VG+. (Lightly scuffed, small smudge). $22.50.
(MOSCOW #A4660)
MOSCOW. Russian Museums. Vystavka Novykh Postuplenii: Russkii
Risunok XVII - Nachala XX Veka (Exhibition of new acquisitions:
Russian Drawing from the 18th to early 20th Century). 107 pp.,
approx. 38 b&w illus., biogs., intro essay. In Russian. Small
8vo, wrps. 1990. Near-fine. $22.00.
(MUDRAK #A2284)
MUDRAK, MYROSLAVA M. The New Generation and Artistic Modernism
in the Ukraine. 282 pp., 57 b&w illus., bibliog, index,
appendices of manifestos by Semenko, Matyushin. A history of
Panfuturism thru Constructivism. 8vo, cloth, no d.j. (as
issued). Ann Arbor (Mich.), UMI, 1986. Fine. $45.00.
(MUNCHEN #A2792)
MUNCHEN. Galerie der Kunstler. Zeitgenossische bildende Kunst
aus Ungarn. 79 pp. exhib. cat., 56 illus., 24 in color. Text in
German by Eva Gelencser. Includes the work of 59 new Hungarian
artists. 4to, stiff wrps. 1987. Fine. $27.50.
(NAKOV #A2225)
NAKOV, ANDREI B. Russian Pioneers at the origins of non-
objective art. 95 pp., 58 illus., some in color. An important
and scarce exhibition catalogue including roughly eighteen
Russian constructivist artists. Text in French/English. Small
oblong 4to, stiff-wrps. London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 1976.
Fine. $60.00.
(NEIZVESTNY #A3283)
BERGER, JOHN. Art and Revolution, ERNST NEIZVESTNY and the Role
of the Artist in the USSR. 191 pp., approx. 90 b&w illus.,
index. A nice copy of this classic. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First U.S.
edition. New York, Pantheon, 1969. D.j. somewhat age-yellowed,
else fine/near-fine. $40.00.
(NESTEROVA #A8351)
NESTEROVA, ELENA. The Itinerants: The Masters of Russian
Realism. 255 pp., approx. 300 illus., 269 in excellent color,
many full-page, several double-page, chronological table of
events in Russia and Europe 1867-1891. Excellent coverage by
genre. Text in English. 4to, cloth, d.j. St. Petersburg,
Parkstone/Aurora, 1996. As new. $65.00.
(NEW YORK #A4841)
NEW YORK. Kent Fine Art. Of Absence and Presence. 55 pp.
Includes: Ilya CHASNIK (7 works), E. KELLY (5 works), MALEVICH
(3 works), REINHARDT (4 works), D. SMITH, T. SMITH Small 4to,
stiff wrps. 1986. Fine. $14.50.
(NORTH DARTMOUTH #A8075)
North Dartmouth. Southeastern Massachusetts University Art
Gallery. POST-UTOPIA: Paintings and Installations by the Soviet
Conceptualists Eric BULATOV, Ilya Kabakov and Komar & Melamid.
24 pp. exhib. cat., 6 b&w illus. Intro. by Lasse Antonsen, poems
by KOMAR & MELAMID, texts by Ilya KABAKOV. Oblong 4to, wrps.
1989. Fine. $16.00.
(PARIS #A2636)
PARIS. Centre Georges Pompidou. Presences Polonaises. 334 pp.
cat. of exhib. containing over 1300 works, hundreds of illus.,
34 color plates. Several dozen texts on painting, sculpture,
photography, architecture, theater, film, literary figures and
other intellectuals. A major catalogue in the tradition of the
important Pompidou exhibitions of the 1980s. Large 4to, wrps.
Original large format edition. 1983. Price scratched out on rear
panel, else fine. $100.00.
(REYNOLDS #A4687)
REYNOLDS, DEE. Symbolist Aesthetics and Early Abstract Art:
Sites of Imaginary Space. 290 pp. 8vo, cloth, d.j. Cambridge,
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995. Fine/Fine. $45.00.
(RICKEY #A1248)
RICKEY, GEORGE. Constructivism. Origins and Evolution. 305 pp.
well illustrated. Square 4to, cloth, d.j. New York, Braziller,
1967. Some wear to top edge and spine of d.j., else near-fine in
v.g.+ d.j. $100.00.
(RUDNITSKY #A4707)
RUDNITSKY, KONSTANTIN. Russian and Soviet Theater 1905-1932. 320
pp., 457 illus., 64 in color, bibliog., index. Many previously
unpublished photos and much new information. 4to, cloth, d.j.
New York, Abrams, 1988. As new. $50.00.
(SALMINA-HASKELL #A6193)
SALMINA-HASKELL, LARISSA. Catalogue of Russian Drawings. 54 pp.,
168 b&w illus. 8vo, stiff wrps. London, Victoria and Albert
Museum, 1972. Fine. $25.00.
(SARABIANOV #A6194)
SARABIANOV, D. et al. [Russian Theatre Design]. Catalogue
listing 401 works by 92 artists, 17 nice color plates, 6 b&w
illus.Texts by D. Sarabianov, John Bowlt, et al. in Russian.
Narrow 4to, wrps. Moscow, 1988. Near-fine. $20.00.
(SARABIANOV #A5322)
SARABIANOV, DMITRI V. Russian Art from Neoclassicism to the
Avant-Garde, 1800-1917: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 320
pp., 354 illus., including 81 mostly full-page color plates,
notes, bibliog., list of illus., index. Excellent coverage of
genres, major and minor artists. 4to, cloth, d.j. New York,
Abrams, 1990. As new. $35.00.
(SCHNITZER #A2562)
SCHNITZER, LUDA and JEAN. Cinema in Revolution: The Heroic Era
of the Soviet Film. 208 pp., numerous b&w film stills. Excellent
glossary and index. 8vo, wrps. N.Y., Da Capo, 1987 (reprint of
London 1973 edition). Near-fine. $10.00.
(STILLWATER #A2105)
STILLWATER (Oklahoma). Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State
Univ. Twentieth-Century Russian Art. 26 pp. exhib. cat. 4to,
stapled wrps. Fine. $7.50.
(STOIL #A3080)
STOIL, MICHAEL J. Balkan Cinema: Evolution after the Revolution.
160 pp., b&w illus., filmog., bibliog., index. 8vo, cloth. No
d.j. (as issued.) Ann Arbor, UMI, 1982. Fine. $20.00.
(SZAFER #A2775)
SZAFER, T. PRZEMYSLAW. Contemporary Polish Architecture. 243
pp., 801 illus., 126 in color, biogs., index of names, index of
sites. Excellent survey of the work of many architects. Text in
English/Polish/Russian. Large 4to, cloth ,d.j. Warsaw, Arkady,
1988. Corners & lower edge bumped, in edge-wrinkled d.j. with
one closed tear along rear flap fold. VG+/VG+. $30.00.
(TAMRUCHI #A2518)
TAMRUCHI, NATALIA. Moscow Conceptualism 1970-1990. 111 pp., 50
illus., 37 full-page color, bibliog. 4to, cloth, d.j. First
edition. Craftsman House, 1995. New. $35.00.
(TAYLOR #A3743)
TAYLOR, RICHARD and IAN CHRISTIE, eds. The Film Factory: Russian
and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. 457 pp., 135 illus.,
154 documents (many in English for the first time), tables of
cinema installations, production, filmog., filmog., indices of
directors, names, general index. Small 4to, wrps. First pb ed.
Routledge, 1994. Fine. $17.50.
(TAYLOR #A4421)
TAYLOR, RICHARD and IAN CHRISTIE, eds. The Film Factory: Russian
and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. 457 pp., 135 illus.,
154 documents (many in English for the first time), tables of
cinema installations, production, filmog., filmog., indices of
directors, names, general index. Small 4to, cloth, d.j.
Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1988. Fine/Fine. $25.00.
(VALKENIER #A8240)
VALKENIER, ELIZABETH. Russian Realist Art -- The State and
Society: The Peredvizhniki and their Tradition. xix, 255 pp., 53
b&w illus., notes, appendices, bibliog., index of names and
subjects. Includes: Repin, Perov, Surikov, Vasnetsov, Kramskoy,
Petrov-Vodkin, et al. A classic reference for late19th century
Russian art history. 8vo, wrps. Reprint ed. New York, Columbia
Univ. Press, 1989. Fine. $17.00.
(VORONTSOV #A7419)
VORONTSOV, YURI and IGOR RACHUK. The Phenomenon of the Soviet
Cinema. 423 pp. plus 50 pp. b&w photos, index. In English. 12mo,
papered bds. Moscow, Progress Pub., 1980. Near-fine. $25.00.
(WHYTE #A5353)
WHYTE, ALISTAIR. New Cinema in Eastern Europe. 159 pp., approx.
140 b&w illus., bibliog., index. Survey covering Poland,
Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, with quick sketch of
Albania, Romania, GDR, Bulgaria. 12mo, wrps. London, Studio
Vista, 1971. V.G., some yellowing, corner bumped, slight
abrasion where last page was stuck to rear cover. $16.00.
(ZORKAYA #A3107)
ZORKAYA, NEYA. The Illustrated History of Soviet Cinema. 320 pp.
text, numerous b&w illus. Covers from 1908 through Glasnost from
a Russian critical perspective. Small square 4to, wrps. New
York, Hippocrene, 1991. New. $12.00.
(ZORKAYA #A3717)
ZORKAYA, NEYA. The Illustrated History of Soviet Cinema. 320 pp.
text, numerous b&w illus. Covers from 1908 through Glasnost from
a Russian critical perspective. Small 4to, cloth, d.j. New York,
Hippocrene, 1991. NF/NF. $22.00.
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