Russkaia zhivopisnaia vyveska i kudozhniki avangarda (Russian painted shop signs and the artists of the avant-garde)
St. Petersburg: Avrora, 1991. Sewn cl. Iurii Vasnetsov, Vera Ermolaeva, Kazimir Malevich, and Pavel Filonov are among the major artists who at times combined works and images to form book covers or posters. This study of the connections between commercial art and the experiments in painting of the early twentieth century shows how one of its sources made the Russian avant-garde art distinctive. Chapter titles: shop signs in Western Europe; roots of Russian shop signs; emergence of painted shop signs; singularities of shop sign text; studio principles; major St. Petersburg artists and the painted shop sign in the early 20th c.; revising norms: Vladimir Markov; Vasilii Kandinskii and folk art; exhibition of Russian folk prints: Mikhail Larionov; discovery of Niko Pirosmanashvili; David Burliuk and shop sign polemics. Beautifully printed in Italy with fold-out reproductions and many full-page color illustrations. 199 p., 29 cm, approx. 200 color and b/w illus., Rus. Item #2645
ISBN: 5730002742
Price: $78.00