Grey cloth over boards; Grey illus. dj.; 219 pp.; 226 plates and figures,

Grey cloth over boards; Grey illus. dj.; 219 pp.; 226 plates and figures, mostly bw but some color. Accompanied an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum; Contains over 200 works, including posters, books, journals, sheet music, costume and stage design, and more; Wonderfully illustrated. Contents as follows: Introduction / Phillip Dennis Cate--The Search for National Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Russian Graphic Design / Alla Rosenfeld--The Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts: A Brief History, 1895-1935 / Ekaterina Grishina--Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Cover Designs from the Collection of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts / Elena Litovchenko--Book and Costume Designs from the Collection of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, 1900-1930 / Elena Pliusnina--The World of Art and Other Turn-of-the-Century Russian Art Journals, 1898-1910 / Janet Kennedy--The World of Art Group: Book and Poster Design / Alla Rosenfeld--A New Aesthetic: World and Image in Russian Futurist Books / Nina Gurianova--The World Turned Upside Down: Russian Posters of the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Civil War / Alla Rosenfeld--"Modern Icon, " or "Tool for Mass Propaganda"? Russian Debate on the Poster / Elena Barkhatova--Figuration versus Abstraction in Soviet Illustrated Children's Books, 1920-1930 / Alla Rosenfeld--Selected Bibliography and a Note on Major Printers and Publishers / Edward Kasinec.

Size: 11x8x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Size: 11x8x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!