Jun 06, 2002 - Sale 1938

Sale 1938 - Lot 154

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE.) Sovkhozi [Soviet Farmers]. Designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. Profusely illustrated with photomontages, photographs, and photo-essays, including centerfolds and gatefolds, depicting the glorious industrialization of the Soviet Union's agriculture industry. Tall 4to, pictorial gilt embossed leatherette, backstrip reinforced with linen tape; one leaf detached. Np, 1939

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The artful layout by the husband-and-wife team of Stepanova and Rodchenko features endpapers with a stylized Photo Realism photomontage, numerous pull-outs heroizing the Soviet worker and soldier, and a particularly humorous montage with rams and sheep. The volume contains articles on state collective farms and their growth during Stalin's Five Year Plan.<