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[AKIMOV] Akimov / edited by K. N. Derzhavin; initials and headpieces by N. P. Akimov

Bartoshevich, A.

Item #2650

Leningrad: Teaclub, 1933. 108, [2] p., 40 p. ill. 15,3 × 21,2 cm. In publisher’s cardboard binding, embossing on the spine and cover, spine is chipped, otherwise good. Photo ex-libris of A. Leibfreid on the first endpaper.

First edition. With forty reproductions of Akimov’s works. Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov (1901—1968) — artist and director, student of M. V. Dobuzhinsky, director of the Leningrad Satire Theater — “Comedy Theater” (1935). Akimov was working as a book designer full time, but at the same time his career as a theatre designer has started in 1932 in BDT with the help of Nikolay Evreinov. Akimov can be regarded as one of the most multifunctional personas in Russian constructivism as he was active as poster and book designer while working as a stage designer, and later as a theatre director. His first work as a theatre director was ‘Hamlet’ staged in 1932 in Vakhtangov theatre (Shostakovich wrote the score for that particular performance). In 1927 ‘Academia’ printed a book dedicated entirely to 26-year-old Akimov and the same year his first personal exhibition was held. By mid-1930s Akimov became a classical name in Soviet theatre design.

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