Zelenina, K[lavdiia Alekseevna] and N[ikolai] Sheverdiaev, artist.

[ITALIAN FUTURISM AND MONUMENTALISM IN THE USSR] Massimo Kampil'i. Massimo Kampigli.

Moscow-Leningrad: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1931. Octavo (17.7 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 46, [2] pp. Summary to last pages in French. Twenty full-page black and white reproductions. Book store stamps and inventory numbers to rear wrapper. Light wear and soil to wrappers; lower spine extremity frayed; still good or better. Item #54918

First edition of this monograph on the Italian Cubist and Futurist poet and painter Massimo Campigli (1895–1971), with Futurist-inspired wrappers by Nikolai Sheverdiaev. The author, art historian Klavdiia Zelenina (1892–19??) presents Campigli as a primarily monumentalist painter, supplying twenty black and white reproductions of the artist’s works in the text. Zelenina also discusses his sympathies with the Soviet and Communist cause due to his travels throughout Russia in 1918. Her other art historical works included a monograph on Paul Gaugin (1926) and Frans Masereel (1930). The wrapper designer, Nikolai Sheverdiaev (1872–1952) studied at the Stroganov Academy in Moscow, graduating in 1895 with a specialty in etching and engraving. In the 1920s he would go on to teach engraving and head the department of graphics at VKhUTEMAS, a school often compared to the Bauhaus in its experimental drive.

As of May 2025, KVK, OCLC show four copies in North America.

Price: €350.00

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