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Mayakovskii — plakatist. Kriticheskii ocherk [i.e. Mayakovsky as Poster Artist. Critical Review].
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1940. Item #53
74 pp.: ill., 1 port.; 22,5x17,5 см. In original illustrated card boards. Covers rubbed, tears and losses to the spine, markings and bookshop labels on the rear pastedown, previous owner's pencil markings and a few drawings in the text (p. 50 and 54). Otherwise very good.
The first edition on Maykovsky as a poster maker. It examines his interest to satire images and his work with ROSTA windows for two years (1919-1921). During this period he made few thousands drawings and captions. Poster substituted magazines, newspapers, ads etc. Mayakovsky revived Russian folk lubok and gave it sharpness and expression. During his time with ROSTA they invented stencil producing which let them send their posters to 47 towns of the Republic.
Text is accompanied by black and white illustrations.
Price: $500.00