VARVARA STEPANOVA: THE COMPLETE WORK
Alexander Lavrentiev and John E. Bowlt [editor]
Alexander Lavrentiev and John E. Bowlt [editor]: VARVARA STEPANOVA: THE COMPLETE WORK. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. First MIT Press edition. Originally printed in Italy by Idea Books Edizioni, Milan, 1988 as "Varvara Stepanova: Una vita costruttivista." A near-fine hardcover book in a near-fine dustjacket with minor shelf wear, especially along the fore edges. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 9.75 x 10.75 hardcover book with 190 pages and 350 illustrations, 80 in color. Nearly all of the illustrations were published for the first time in this book. Shouldn't there be more monographs devoted to the work of this talented Constructivist?
Contents
- Introduction: Varvara Stepanova, A Frenzied Artist by John E. Bowlit
- Who was Varvara Stepanova?
- The Poetics of Creativity
- The Constructivist Style in Art and Design
- Director of Typography
- Painting: Landscapes and Still Lifes
- Life and Art: Varvara Rodchenko
- Varvara Stepanova in Photographs
- Articles by Stepanova
- Remembering Our Grandmother, Alexandra Ivanovna Stepanova by S. G. Stepanova
- Varvara Stepanova: Biography
- Select Bibliography
- Index
From the Publisher: In this first extensive study of her life and work, Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958) emerges as a remarkable artist whose versatility, energy, and contribution to the Russian avant-garde matched and in some cases exceeded that of her husband, Alexander Rodchenko. The book is written and designed by Aleksander Lavrentiev, who is the grandson of Rodchenko and Stepanova and the curator of their archive. Lavrentiev's text is accompanied by excerpts from Stepanova's own diary, with its fresh insights and lively commentary on Soviet art, and a memoir by her daughter . . . . Like Rodchenko, Stepanova was among the founders of Constructivism, a contributor to the famous Moscow 5 x 5 = 25 exhibition held in 1921, and significant in shaping Russian's visual culture during the turbulent years following the revolution."
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