The Soviet photobook 1920-1941 / Mikhail Karasik ; edited by Manfred Heiting.

Main entry:

Karasik, Mikhail, 1953-2017, author.

Title & Author:

The Soviet photobook 1920-1941 / Mikhail Karasik ; edited by Manfred Heiting.

Publication:

Göttingen : Steidl, [2015]

Description:

636 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
Includes reproductions of photographs from 160 photobooks from the period.
Text in English.

Summary:

The Soviet Union was unique in its formidable and dynamic use of the illustrated book as a means of propaganda. Through the book, the U.S.S.R. articulated its totalitarian ideologies and expressed its absolute power in an unprecedented way; through avant-garde writing and radical artistic design that was in full flower during the 1920s and 1930s. No other country, nation, government or political system promoted itself more by attracting and employing acclaimed members of the avant-garde. Among them were writers like Semion Kirsanov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Selvinsky, Sergei Tretyakov and Kornely Zelinsky; artistic designers like Gustav Klutsis, Valentina Kulagina, El Lissitzky, Sergei Senkin, Varvara Stepanova, Solomon Telingater and Nikolai Troshin; and photographers including Dmitry Debabov, Vladimir Griuntal, Boris Ignatovich, Alexander Khlebnikov, Yeleazar Langman, Alexander Rodchenko, Georgy Petrusov; not to mention many of the best printers and book binders. 'The Soviet photobook 1920-1941' presents 160 of the most stunning and elaborately produced photobooks from this period and includes more than 400 additional reference illustrations. The book also provides short biographies of the photobook contributors, some of whom are presented here for the first time.

ISBN:

9783958290310 (hardcover)
3958290310 (hardcover)

Subject:

Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Photobooks Soviet Union Pictorial works.
Photobooks Soviet Union Bibliography.
Photography Soviet Union History.
Book design Soviet Union.
Propaganda, Soviet.
Photographs Political aspects Soviet Union.
Photographers Soviet Union.
Livres photos URSS Ouvrages illustrés.
Livres photos URSS Bibliographie.
Photographie URSS Histoire.
Livres Conception graphique URSS.
Propagande soviétique.
Photographies Aspect politique URSS.
Photographes URSS.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Book design.
Photobooks.
Photographers.
Photographs Political aspects.
Photography.
Fotobuch
Fotoböcker.
Soviet Union.

Form/genre:

Bibliography
illustrated books.
bibliographies.
Illustrated works.
Bibliographies.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Heiting, Manfred, editor.
Heiting, Manfred editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291109
Call No.: BIB 234448
Status: Available

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