PARIS-MOSCOU. 1900-1930
Pontus Hultén (editor)
Pontus Hultén (editor): PARIS-MOSCOU. 1900-1930. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, 1979. First edition. Text in French. A very good to near-fine oversized softcover coatalogue in stiff, printed wrappers: top of spine has been bumped. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8.25 x 11.75 massive softcover catalogue with 580 pages and 667 illustrations (145 in color); capsule biographies and bibliographies by artist; and index. The catalogue of an exposition of the arts held in Paris and Moscow from May 31 - November 5, 1979.
The original much sought after Pompidou catalogue, with numerous articles surveying the development and synthesis of European Moden Art Movements, including Art, Architecture, Theatre-Dance, Photography, Cinema, Propaganda, as translated through the Paris-Moscow axis. A phenomenal production.
Articles by Jean Millier, Pontus Hultén, A. Khaltourine, V.M. Polevoi and others contain extensive information about French and Russian artists and writers, making this book an important source of information. Included are illustrated articles dealing with fine art, applied art including furniture, architecture, the propagana art of the Russian Revolution, poster art, theatre and ballet, literature, music, the cinema and photography. Frighteningly comprehensive. Contents:
- Arts Plastiques
- Arts Appliques et Objets Utilitaires
- Architecture -Urbanisme
- Agitprop
- Affiche
- Theatre-Ballet
- Litterature
- Musique
- Cinema
- Photo Creative
Includes work by natan altman, pierre bonnard, david bourliouk, georges braque, lev bruni, marc chagall, robert delauney, sonia delauney, andre derain, raoul dufy, alexandra exter, pavel filonov, albert gleizes, natalia gotcharova, juan gris, sergei ivanov, vassilly kandinsky, mikhail larionov, fernanr leger, jacques lipchitz, aristide maillol, kasimir malevich, henri matisse, amedeo modigliani amedee ozenfant, pablo picasso, libov popova, jean pougny, odilon redon, vladimir tatlin, jean cocteau, naum gabo, gustav klutsis, le corbusier, el lissitzky, piet mondrian, alexander rodchenko, jean burkhalter, a. m. cassandre, pierre chareau, eileen gray, rene herbst, jean luce, andre lurcat, robert mallet-stevens, jean prouve, jean puiforcat, emile ruhlmann, gorgei and vladimir stenberg, auguste perret, varvara stepaanova, and many, many others.
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