Teige, Karel, designer.

Sovětské umění [Soviet Art]. Bound volume containing six monographs on Soviet literature, art, theater, film, music, and architecture.

Prague: Nakladatelství Pavel Prokop, 1936. Octavo (21 × 14 cm). Original printed cloth; original photo-illustrated dust jacket; photo-illustrated front wrappers of all volumes bound in, as issued (slightly resized to binding); 80, 78, 36, 40, and 229 pp. (529 pp. plus register). Occasional photographic reproductions throughout. Overall very good; the dust jacket with minor nicks and creasing to edges, but still about very good. Item #52578

Complete bound set of all six titles published in this section of "Monografie SSSR" (Monographs about the USSR), a wide-ranging series of books documenting various aspects of Soviet life and culture, including labor organization, the economy, and, in this case, Soviet culture. The present volume is as published by the publisher, in the hardcover cloth binding and the pictorial dust jacket. The six volumes were also issued separately in wrappers and include in the following order:

F. Píšek: Sovětská literatura [Soviet literature],
J. Honzl: Sovětské divadlo [Soviet theater],
Otakar Mrkvička: Výtvarnictví v SSSR [Soviet visual arts],
Karel Teige: Sovětská architektura [Soviet architecture],
Zdeněk Nejedlý, Sovětská hudba [Soviet music],
Lubomír Linhart: Sovětský film [Soviet film].

Among the editors, was Karel Teige, who is also responsible for the overall design and typography. The wrapper designs are attributed to Karel Poličanský, an architect and book designer who used the pseudonym Jiří Friml.

Price: €750.00

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