Chlenova, E. V. (compiler)

Pervaia vystavka khudozhnikov knigi: katalog [The First Exhibition of Book Artists: Catalog]

Moscow: Artists' Union of the USSR, 1948. Publisher's cover. Item #640

16.5 x 11 cm. 34 pages: illustrations. Text in Russian. One of 1000 copies. A very good copy with light wear along the edges.

This catalog documents the inaugural exhibition that took place on April 4, 1948, at the House of Culture of Armenia in Moscow. The exhibition showcased a wide array of Soviet publications spanning the 1930s to the 1940s, encompassing books, albums, invitation cards, and even book design components such as bindings, covers, dust jackets, title pages, frontispieces, imposition pages, headpieces, endings, letters, fonts, and more. A total of 40 artists contributed to the exhibition, resulting in the display of 396 remarkable works.

Notable participants in the exhibition included Dmitry Mitrohin, Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Solomon Telingater, Vladimir Favorsky among others.

As of December 2023, OCLC records indicate no institutional holdings for this book.

Price: $300.00