Popov, Evgenii, artist.

[SOVIET AVANT-GARDE – CONSTRUCTIVISM] Izdatel'stvo “Zemlia i fabrika”. Katalog izdanii. Noiabr' 1925 [Publishing house “Land and factory”. Catalog of publications. November 1925].

Moscow; Leningrad: Zemlia i fabrika, 1925. Octavo (17.5 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial staple-stitched wrappers by Evgenii Popov; 41, [5] pp. Brown ink (?) stain to pp. 4-5, else very good. Item #55145

Catalog of the first three years of publications by the popular publishing house Zemlia i fabrika (“Land and factory”; abbreviated as ZIF), divided into twelve thematic sections, including "Literature of the peoples of the SSSR", "Children’s library”, “Workers’ library”, “Science fiction”, and “Humor and satire”. Founded in Moscow in 1922 by the Ukrainian poet of the Acmeist group Volodymyr Narbut (1888–1938), ZIF had distribution centers in Leningrad and Kharkiv, and would continue operations until 1930. ZIF publications were oriented toward the “mass working-peasant reader”, providing this audience with “high quality literature” about the life of the working people. To appeal to this target demographic, the covers of the publications were noted for having eye-catching design that clearly mimicked film and theater advertising, with many of the cover designers known primarily as poster artists. Avant-garde artists such as Natan Al’tman and Alexandr Rodchenko also designed covers for ZIF. Little is known about the designer of the Constructivist-inspired wrappers of this catalog, Evgenii Popov, who seems to have designed at least one other wrapper for ZIF. The catalog contains many publications later removed from circulation because of the persecution of their authors during the Stalinist purges. This includes Narbut himself, who despite being a Russian-language writer seems to have been repressed because of his Ukrainian origins.

As of May 2025, not in KVK, OCLC.

Price: €400.00

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