Mikhailov, A[leksei Ivanovich].

[SOVIET ART – AVANT-GARDE] IZO-iskusstvo rekonstruktivnogo perioda [Visual art of the period of reconstruction].

Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1932. Octavo (21.5 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 207, [1] pp. Illustrations. Spine extremities lightly chipped, small loss to upper corner of rear wrapper; light soil to wrappers; else about very good. Item #54076

Richly illustrated collection of articles about restructuring Soviet art toward so-called proletarian art, in terms of form, subject matter, and the background of the artists. The collection includes articles on new Soviet sculpture and the development of monumentalism, the Soviet lubok (chapbooks), and poster art, forms that were meant to communicate directly with a mass audience, which was still largely illiterate. Includes a review of an exhibition of self-taught or amateur artists, celebrating the introduction of new “socially conscious” themes in painting, such as the work of collective farms and the building of new factories. Most strikingly, the article includes a discussion of painting of “international political themes” such as racism and lynching in the American South, accompanied by a reproduction of a painting on this subject. The consolidation of artistic groupings such as ORS [Society of Amateur Artists] and AKhR [Association of the Artists of Revolutionary Russia] into RAPKh [Russian Association of Proletarian Artists], which would eventually turn into the Soviet Artists Union, is also discussed throughout the collection.

As of December 2023, KVK, OCLC show copies at ten libraries worldwide, with six in North America, including at the Getty, USC, Northwestern, Princeton, Metropolitan Museum, and Harvard.

Price: €850.00

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