SOVIET COMMERCIAL DESIGN OF THE TWENTIES
M. Anikst

M. Anikst (ed.): SOVIET COMMERCIAL DESIGN OF THE TWENTIES. NYC: Abbeville Press, 1989. Firstl edition. A Fine hardcover Book in a very good Dust jacket: DJ shows rubbing to folds and some lamination bubbling and peeling along the edges. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.

9.5 x 11.75 hardcover book with 144 pages with 323 illustrations (211 in full color). Compiled by a Russian Graphic Designer, this collection presents many rare and unusual pieces (many reproduced here for the first time), as well as the classics by Soviet Avant-Garde designers such as Alexandre Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Gan, Stepanova, the Stenberg Brothers, Kandinsky, Klutsis, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Salomon Telingater, etc. Amazing survey of art in the USSR from the height of the Constructivist Era - in unusually nice condition. Highly recommended.

Includes posters, book jackets, candy wrappers, emblems, cigarette and matchbox designs, political propaganda, advertising, cinema posters, the new typography, and much more. This is an essential volume for any designer or historian of the Constructivist Movement.

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