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MODERN ART OF RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE
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ARTEXT offers the following in Russian and Eastern European modern art.
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Part I - Monographs:
(ARCHIPENKO #A7239)
Los Angeles. UCLA Art Galleries. ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO: A
Memorial Exhibition 1967-69. 80 pp. exhib. cat., 81 illus.,
6 nice color plates, 4 photos of artist, catalogue of 118 works,
chronol., bibliog. Intro. Katherine Kuh; texts by Frances
Archipenko, Frederick S. Wight, Donald H. Karshan. Oblong 4to,
wrps. 1967. Mint. $30.00.
(BALKA #A5764)
Chicago. The Renaissance Society. MIROSLAV BALKA: 36, 6.
44 pp., b&w illus., exhibs., bibliog. Text by Peter
Schjeldahl and Julian Heynen. Sculptural pieces of steel, ash,
sand, foam, felt and other mixed-media by an avant-garde Polish
sculptor. 4to, stiff wrps. 1992. Fine. $10.00.
(CHAGALL #A3792)
Amiel, Leon, ed. Homage to CHAGALL. Special issue of XXe
Siecle. 192 pp., over 200 plates and illus., many in color.
Essays by artist, Louis Aragon, and many more. This printing
does not contain orig. litho. Tall 4to, cloth, d.j. New York,
Leon Amiel, 1982. V.G.+ (lower edge rubbed with a few small
bumps), in V.G.+ d.j. with light rubbing to spine fold.
$36.00.
(CHAGALL #A2333)
Greenfeld, Howard. MARC CHAGALL. 192 pp., 43 illus., 16
in color. Small 4to, cloth, d.j. First printing. New York,
Follett, 1967. V.g. in G+ d.j. Wear to spine ends and corners,
owner name h.t.p., d.j. torn with several pieces missing.
$20.00.
(CHAGALL #A4208)
Kamensky, Aleksandr. CHAGALL: The Russian Years 1907-
1922. 376 pp., 192 color, 211 b&w illus. A beautiful and
important book. Folio, cloth, d.j. New York, Rizzoli, 1988.
Near-fine/Near-fine. $90.00.
(CHAGALL #A1925)
Le Targat, Francois. MARC CHAGALL. 128 pp., 151 illus.,
123 in color. 4to, cloth, d.j. New York, Rizzoli, 1985. Corner
bumped, else fine. $70.00.
(CHAGALL #A5534)
McMullen, Roy. The World of MARC CHAGALL Photographed by IZIS
BIDERMANAS. 267 pp., 56 pp. in full color, 68 illus.,
bibliog., index. A photographic study of Chagall at work,
interspersed with the artist's statements about his life. Large
4to, decorated cloth, d.j. Garden City, Doubleday, 1968. Fine,
in V.G. d.j. with several closed tears and wear to upper spine
edge. $75.00.
(CHAGALL #A5535)
Meyer, Franz. MARC CHAGALL: Life and Work. 775 pp., 1643
illus. Important monograph. Stout folio, cloth, d.j. New York,
Abrams, 1961. Fine/Fine. $200.00.
(CHAGALL #A2274)
Nice. Musee National Marc Chagall. MARC CHAGALL: maquettes et
esquisses pour l'oeuvre monumental. 119 pp. 139 b&w
illus., 1 color coverplate. Intro. Charles Marq, inaug. speeches
by Chagall. Small sq. 4to, wrps. 1974. Partial creasing covers,
small adhesive stain rear cover, else v.g.+. $15.00.
(CHAGALL #A5985)
Tokyo. Museum of Western Art and Galerie Shirokiya. MARC
CHAGALL. 188 pp. exhib. cat., hundreds of illus. in color
and b&w. Intro. by Jean Cassou and bibliog. in French /
Japanese, the remainder in Japanese. A beautifully produced
catalogue. Sm. oblong 4to, self-wrps. 1963. Bright copy with
light corner dent and tiny closed tear at upper spine edge.
$35.00.
(CHAGALL #A1661)
Venturi, Lionello. CHAGALL. 130 pp., 108 colorplates.
Square 8vo, wrps. Geneva, Skira (The Taste of our Time), 1969.
Cover slightly scuffed, else fine crisp copy. $25.00.
(CHARCHOUNE #A2339)
Paris. Galerie Raymond Creuze. SERGE CHARCHOUNE. Vol. 1.
255 pp., 354 excellent color illus., many full-page. A
compendium of work from 1916-1939 by this Russian-born master of
European abstraction not well-known in the U.S. 4to, cloth, d.j.
First edition. Paris, Raymond Creuze, 1975. Near-fine in v.g.+
d.j. with a little edgewear and 1 short closed tear. $95.00.
(DOVZHENKO #A3155)
Carynnyk, Marco, ed. and trans. ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO: The Poet
as Filmmaker, Selected Writings. 323 pp. Autobiog.,
notebooks, chronol., filmog., notes, index. The notebook is a
record of the Ukraine during the German invasion and occupation,
a hymn to Russia and its people and the record of an artist's
eye. 8vo, wrps. Cambridge (MA), MIT Press, 1973. Covers scuffed,
creased and some soil. Clean bright tight copy from title-page
on. $14.00.
(EISENSTEIN #A4624)
EISENSTEIN, SERGEI. Film essays and a Lecture. Jan Leyda,
ed. 220 pp.,8 b&w photos., bibliog. of Eisenstein's
writings, notes, index. Foreword Grigori Kozintsev. 8vo, cloth,
d.j. New York, Praeger, 1970. Near-fine, in v.g - dustjacket
with 1 inch chip top edge, rear panel and edges of folds rubbed,
price clipped. $17.50.
(EISENSTEIN #A5667)
Goodwin, James. EISENSTEIN, Cinema, and History. 262 pp.,
notes, filmog., bibliog., index. Scholarly text; no illus. 8vo,
wrps. Urbana and Chicago, Univ. of Illinois, 1993. New.
$15.00.
(EISENSTEIN #A3262)
Mayer, David. EISENSTEIN's Potemkin: A Shot-by-Shot
Presentation. 252 pp. Based on Museum of Modern Art print.
An invaluable tool for the study of this film and montage
generally. 8vo, wrps. (Reprint of 1972 ed.) New York, Da Capo
Press, nd. As new. $15.00.
(EISENSTEIN #A5913)
Moussinac, Leon. SERGEI EISENSTEIN: An investigation into his
films and philosophy. 22 illus. and stills, some double-
page, bibliog., index. 16mo, wrps. First Eng. trans. of 1964
Paris ed. New York, Crown, 1970. Near-fine. $15.00.
(EL LISSITZSKY #A4663)
Moscow. Tretyakov Gallery. [LISSITZKY] EL LISITSKII: k
vystavke v zalakh Gos. 213 pp. rotoprint with texts, letters
by Lissitzky and memoirs about him. Intro. essay by T. V.
Goriacheva. In Russian. Sm. 8vo, wrps. Ed. of 1000 1991. Front
cover rubbed with a few small faint soil marks. Interior as new.
$35.00.
(GEORG #A3764)
GEORG, WILLY. In the Warsaw Ghetto, Summer 1941. 111 pp.
photographs by Willy Georg (a German soldier) with accompanying
text from Warsaw Ghetto diaries. Compiled by Rafael F. Scharf.
4to, cloth, d.j. Aperture, 1993. New. (Pub. at $40) $36.00.
(GOLOVIN #A3347)
Posharskaya, M. ALEXANDER GOLOVIN. 262 pp., 225 illus.,
most in excellent color. Important early 20th century stage and
costume designs for Diaghilev, Meyerhold and others. Text in
Russian. Small square 4to, cloth, d.j. Moscow, 1990. Crisp near-
fine, in near-fine d.j. with small closed tear front panel.
$45.00.
(JAWLENSKY #A2369)
Rotterdam. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. ALEXEJ VON
JAWLENSKY. 292 pp. exhib cat., 140 plates of paintings and
drawings, nearly all in beautiful color, biog., exhibs. Text by
Volker Rattemayer. Dutch/English. Thick 4to, self-wrps. 1994.
New. $40.00.
(KABAKOV #A4762)
Wallach, Amei. ILYA KABAKOV: The Man Who Never Threw Anything
Away. 255 pp., 290 illus., 70 in color, notes, bibliog.,
index. Intro. Robert Storr, extensive commentaries by Kabakov on
individual works. The first comprehensive monograph on this
contemporary Russian artist. 4to, cloth, d.j. New York, Abrams,
1996. As new. $54.00.
(KANDINSKY #A6219)
Hanfstaengl, Erika. WASSILY KANDINSKY: Aquarelle und
Zeichnungen im Lenbachhaus Munchen. 178 pp. catalogue of 612
works, all illus., 20 color plates (including cover plate),
concordance. Brief text in German by Will Grohmann. Small sq.
4to, wrps. Munchen, Prestel, 1981. About fine. $18.00.
(KANDINSKY #A1923)
Lindsay, Kenneth C. and Peter Vergo, eds. KANDINSKY: Complete
Writings on Art. (2 Vols.) 924 pp. Thick 8vo, cloth, d.j.
First printing. Boston, G.K. Hall & Co., 1982 ("The
Documents of Twentieth Century Art"). Slight rubbing top of
d.j., else fine new crisp copy. $125.00.
(KANDINSKY #A1348)
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. KANDINSKY: Russian
and Bauhaus Years, 1915-1933. 360 pp. exhib. cat., hundreds
of illus., 30 color plates. Major text by Clark V. Poling. Stout
square 4to, stiff wrps. 1983. Spine creased, else near-fine.
$27.50.
(KANDINSKY #A6770)
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. VASILY KANDINSKY:
Painting on Glass (Hinterglasmalerei). Unpag. (approx. 50
pp.) exhibition catalogue design by Herbert Matter. 46 illus., 5
in color; catalogue list of 52 works, notes. Text by Hans K.
Rothel. 8vo, stiff wrps. Ed. of 2000. Uncommon. 1966. V.G.
$30.00.
(KANDINSKY #A2032)
Roethel, Hans K. and Jean K. Benjamin. KANDINSKY: Catalogue
Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, vol. I, 1900-1916. 558 pp.,
595 entries, many in color. Square folio, cloth, d.j. Ithaca,
Cornell Univ. Press, 1982. Fine in near-fine d.j. $220.00.
(KANDINSKY #A2033)
Roethel, Hans K. and Jean K. Benjamin. KANDINSKY: Catalogue
Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, 1916-1944. 551 pp.,
over 575 entries, many in color. Square folio, cloth, d.j.
Ithaca, Cornell Univ. Press, 1984. Fine in near-fine d.j.
$220.00.
(KANDINSKY #A5561)
Weiss, Peg. KANDINSKY and Old Russia: The Artist as
Ethnographer and Shaman. 360 pp., 52 color and 150 b&w
illus. Groundbreaking study of Kandinsky's debt to Russian
folklore and ethnic traditions. Square 4to, cloth, d.j. New
Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1995. New. (Pub. at $50.00).
$45.00.
(KUPKA #A4160)
Faucherau, Serge. KUPKA. 128 pp., 182 illus., 137 in
color, biog., bibliog. 4to, cloth, d.j. Barcelona, Poligrafa,
1989. New. $27.50.
(LARIONOV #A3841)
Parton, Anthony. MIKHAIL LARIONOV and the Russian Avant-
Garde. 254 pp., 216 b&w illus., 30 color plates, notes,
extensive bibliog., index. Major new monograph. 4to, cloth, d.j.
FIrst ed. Princeton Univ. Press, 1993. New. (Pub. at $50.)
$45.00.
(MALEVICH #A1958)
Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum. MALEVICH. 168 pp. exhib.
cat. Hundreds of illus., 20 in color. Catalogue Raisonne of
Malevich exhib. in Berlin 1927, biog. Important critical
catalogue by Troels Andersen. Text in English. Small square
folio, self-wrps. 1970. Spine and lower rear corner slightly
creased, minor rubbing, else near-fine. $335.00.
(MALEVICH #A7200)
Crone, Rainer and David Moos. KASIMIR MALEVICH: The Climax of
Disclosure. 230 pp., 58 color plates, 97 half-tones, notes,
extensive bibliog., index. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. printed on
acid-free paper. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991.
Fine/Fine. $50.00.
(MALEVICH #A2851)
Douglas, Charlotte. MALEVICH, Artist and Theoretician.
248 pp., 200 illus., 140 in color. The most lavish book on this
artist. Folio, cloth, d.j. Paris, Flammarion, 1991. New. (Pub.
at $75.). $67.50.
(MATEJKO #A7209)
Starzynski, Juliusz. JAN MATEJKO. Unpag. (approx. 290
pp.), 245 b&w illus., 14 tipped-in full-page color plates, 9
text illus., chronol., bibliog., list of illus. Important
monograph on this late 19th century Polish painter of major
history pictures, landscapes, and portraits. Small stout 4to,
cloth, d.j. Warsaw, Arkady,1973. Near-fine +, in about fine d.j.
$35.00.
(MOHOLY-NAGY #A4724)
Hight, Eleanor M. Picturing Modernism: MOHOLY-NAGY and
photography in weimar Germany. 257 pp., 108 illus., notes,
extensive bibliog. including M-N's writings. Excellent new
critical monograph on this most important influence on 20th
century visual aesthetics. Tall 8vo, cloth, d.j. Cambridge, MIT,
1995. New. $40.00.
(MOHOLY-NAGY #A2234)
Hight, Eleanor M. with A.K. Miller and N. Nugent. MOHOLY-
NAGY: Photography and Film in Weimar Germany. 144 pp. exhib.
cat., 116 b&w illus. Substantial texts, chronol., bibliog.
Tall 4to, stiff wrps. Wellesley (Mass.), Wellesley College
Museum, 1985. Corners slightly scuffed, else fine. $27.00.
(MOHOLY-NAGY #A6593)
Kostelanetz, Richard, ed. MOHOLY-NAGY: An Anthology. 238
pp., 67 illus. Collection of writings by Moholy-Nagy and his
contemporaries. Sq. 8vo, wrps. Reprint ed. New York, Da Capo,
1991. About fine crisp copy. $14.25.
(MOHOLY-NAGY #A4985)
MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO. Painting, Photography, Film. A
translation of the text that constituted Vol. 8 in the
Bauhausbucher series, pub. in 1925. Note by Hans M. Wingler.
Large 8vo, wrps. Reprint of 1969 ed. Cambridge, MIT, 1987. As
new. $9.50.
(MOHOLY-NAGY #A2657)
MOHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO. Painting, Photography, Film. 150 pp.
Eng. translation by Janet Seligman of the 1927 second edition of
Malerei, Fotographie, Film, published by the Bauhaus Press. With
a note by Hans Wingler, postscript by Otto Stelzer. Important
exploration of light, space, framing, typography, photo images
and kinetics on art and design. Tall 8vo, wrps. First MIT
paperback ed. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1973. Covers slightly
scuffed, partial crease rear panel. Near-fine. $12.00.
(MOHOLY-NAGY #A5665)
MOHOLY-NAGY, SIBYL. MOHOLY-NAGY: Experiment in Totality.
259 pp., 80 illus., 4 color plates, index. Intro. by Walter
Gropius, epilogue by Robert Jay Wolff. 8vo, cloth, d.j. 2nd ed.
Cambridge, MIT Press, 1969. V.G., in battered d.j. with two
chips front panel. Owner name and faint library stamp lower
edge, p.125 folded (publisher defect). $22.00.
(NEIZVESTNY #A3737)
NEIZVESTNY, ERNST. Space, Time, and Synthesis in Art: Essays
on Art, Literature, and Philosophy. 189 pp., approx. 50 hors
texte b&w illus., exhibs., colls., bibliog. 8vo, wrps.
Ontario, Mosaic Press, 1990. New. $15.00.
(POLANSKI #A5327)
Kiernan, Thomas. The ROMAN POLANSKI Story. 262 pp., 50
b&w photos. 8vo, 1/4 cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, Grove
Press, 1980. About fine/V.G.+ (d.j. edges lightly worn at spine
extremities). $17.50.
(POLANSKI #A7025)
POLANSKI, ROMAN. Roman by Polanski. 461 pp.
autobiography, 59 b&w photos, index. Stout 8vo, 1/4 cloth,
d.j. First ed. New York, William Morrow & Co., 1984. Front
board light warp, else near-fine, in near-fine d.j. $15.00.
(PUDOVKIN #A6520)
PUDOVKIN and ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO. Two Russian Film Classics:
Mother PUDOVKIN, Earth DOVZHENKO. 102 pp., illus. Two great
Russian classics. 8vo, wrps. New York, Simon and Schuster
(Classic Film Scripts), 1973. Slight surface rubbing, else fine.
$13.00.
(PUDOVKIN #A4600)
PUDOVKIN, V. I. Film Technique and Film Acting. 388 pp.
Reprint of the Memorial Edition of 1949 with a memoir and a
revised and completed record of the author's film work. 8vo,
wrps. First Evergreen ed. New York, Grove Press, 1970. Corners
lightly rubbed, else crisp V.G.+/VG with chip top edge of front
panel of d.j. $14.00.
(RODCHENKO #A4593)
Elliott, David, ed. ALEXANDER RODCHENKO. 133 pp., 41
color plates, approx. 90 sepia illus. and photos. Small 4to,
wrps. Oxford Museum of Modern Art, 1979. V.G.+ (corners rubbed,
a few wrinkles to covers; inner text crisp and clean).
$25.00.
(SEROV #A4354)
Sarabyanov, Dmitri, and Grigori Arbuzov. VALENTIN SEROV:
Paintings, Graphic Works, Stage Designs. Catalogue Raisonne
of 693 works, all illus., over 135 color plates, most are full-
page or double-page. Biog. with photos, sources, index of
titles, index of collections. Text in English. Folio, cloth,
d.j. First ed. Leningrad, Aurora, in conjunction with Abrams,
N.Y., 1982. Neat small name stamp top of f.e.p., else fine/fine.
$100.00.
(SOVAK #A3985)
New York. Achim Moeller. SOVAK: Retrospective 1980-1988.
62 pp. exhib. cat., 17 color plates, biog., exhibs., colls.,
bibliog. Intro. Thomas M. Messer; text Milan Kundera. Klee-like
smallscale semi-figurative abstractions. Large sq. 8vo, stiff
self wrps., tipped-in cover plate. 1988. Fine. $27.50.
(TARTOVSKY #A3164)
TARTOVSKY, ANDREY. Sculpting in Time. 254 pp., over 100
stills. An essential book for students of cinema and filmmakers
worldwide. Small square 4to, wrps. Third ed. Austin, Univ. of
Texas, 1991. As new. $11.00.
(TICHY #A7354)
Tomes, Jan. FRANTISEK TICHY. 287 pp., 409 illus., 54
tipped in color plates, documentary photos, biog., index. Text
in Czech with summary in English, French and Russian. 4to, bds,
d.j. (Prague), Odeon, 1976. V.G., in moderately worn d.j.
$50.00.
(TOLSTOY #A6101)
TOLSTOY, ALEXEI N. Aelita. 167 pp. A new English
translation by Antonina W. Bouis of the 1922 Russian sci-fi
classic, the basis for the film Aelita: Queen of Mars. Intro.
Theodore Sturgeon. 8vo, cloth, d.j. New York and London,
MacMillan, 1981. Fine/Near-fine. $8.50.
(WAJDA #A5301)
WAJDA, ANDRZEJ. The Wajda Trilogy: Ashes and Diamonds, A
Generation, Kanal. 239 pp., over 60 stills, credits and
cast. Trans. and 20 pp. intro. by Boleslaw Sulik. 8vo, wrps.
First printing. New York, Simon and Schuster (Modern Film
Scripts), 1972. V.G.+. Rem. marks on upper and lower edges, else
tight clean copy. $10.00.
(WAJDA #A2605)
WAJDA, ANDRZEJ. Double Vision: My Life in Film. 136 pp,
about 20 b&w stills. One of the best director's books on
filmmaking. 8vo, 1/4 cloth, d.j. First American ed. New York,
Henry Holt, 1989. Fine/Near-fine. $16.00.
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