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Kino

BURSAK, Ivan

$3,850
Offered by Ursus Books
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Date: 1925
  • Seller SKU: 171734
1925. BURSAK, Ivan. Kino. 102, [2] pp., illustrated throughout. Oblong 4to, 215 x 295 mm. In original photomontage boards, with a new spine, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Proletkino, 1925. A striking piece of avant-garde book design in this work on Soviet cinema by Ivan Bursak, a revolutionary who was director of Proletkino and executed in 1943. The photomontage cover design was produced by E.A. Mukhina, and the Constructivist title page design was created by the architect Georgy Gol'ts (1893-1946) who designed Metro stations and the Meyerhold Theater, among many other things. Scarce.

Offered by Ursus Books

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Peter Kraus
Ursus Books
50 East 78 Street
New York, New York 10075
Phone/Text: (212) 772-8787
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