Screen Ekran #27 1926

Constructivist magazine Ekran, issue number 27, 18th July 1926. The ‘working newspaper’- a weekly Soviet magazine which focussed on recent developments in the USSR and abroad. This issue features a colourful cover illustration of a plane flying above fields and a farmhouse, with electricity pylons in the background, against a dark blue night sky. The issue includes an article titled Conquest of the Air, with an illustration of an imagined futuristic city with roads wrapping around buildings. Other articles include City of Toys, In Our Far East, and In The Vatican. Articles are accompanied with photographs and illustrations. The back page features a chess puzzle with solutions. Good condition, tear on cover, creasing, staining, browning, tears inside, one staple missing, back cover missing.