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.