Avantgarde Books for Soviet Children Udarnaya Kniga Sovetskoi Detvory

The publication presents a wide and voluminous Soviet children's book of the 1920-1930s with photo illustrations,restores the real picture of the pre-war publishing policy in a book for children and youth. Includes 150 photo-books,represented by its cover,several double-page spreads and a short essay. Same number of photomontaged and drawn covers are presented as examples of similar publications and themes. Contains work of such artists: N. Popov,A. Surikov,B. Titov,V. Roskin,S. Bigos,Soviet artist,master of woodcuts and book graphics,teacher; A. Rodchenko,Russian artist,sculptor,photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; G. Klutsis,who was a pioneering Latvian photographer and major member of the Constructivist avant-garde in the early 20th century. He is known for the Soviet revolutionary and Stalinist propaganda; S. Senkin,twentieth-century Russian artist. He used a variety of artistic techniques such as graphic and poster design,photography and photomontage as well as painting; D. Melnikov,Soviet graphic artist,illustrator,poster artist,cartoonist; N. Denisovsky,Famous Soviet painter,graphic artist,stage designer,cartoonist,poster artist,administrator. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Published Kontakt-Kultura,1000 copies. Fair condition,loss of material on the corners of the cover,rubbings,minor staining. Pages are in good condition. 278 pages.