Two books on Jewish artists. One essential, the other less so, but
still a fine book. We ship and bill to libraries. Individuals are
asked to prepay. Call 415-831-3228 or email to reserve you copy(ies).
These can also be ordered impersonally through my website at
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The BOOKS
Shatskikh, Aleksandra. "Vitebsk: The Life of Art." New Haven, Conn.,
Yale University Press, 2007. Quarto in dust jacket, xx, 391 pp.,
frontispiece map, b/w and color photos and illustrations, Appendix:
Students at the Vitebsk School of Art, notes, selected bibliography,
index. Hardbound. Translated into English from the original Russian
by Katherine Foshko Tsan.
"This book examines the artistic life of Vitebsk during the
years 1917-1922, when a great burst of creative experimentation
transformed the modest Russian town into one of the most influential
gateways to the art of the twentieth century. Spurred by native son
Marc Chagall, who returned home after the October Revolution in 1917
to take the position of art commissioner, Vitebsk rose to a pinnacle
of fame as an artistic laboratory for the avant-garde. It was here
that such luminaries as El Lissitzky, Yuri Pen, Kazimir Malevich,
Nikolai Suetin, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others worked, inspired one
another, and made distinctive contributions to modernism.
Art historian Aleksandra Shatskikh surveys the entire "Vitebsk
phenomenon," drawing on an array of archives in Russia and Amsterdam,
many of which have never been open to Western scholars. She discusses
Chagall's Academy of Art and its major teachers and students; the
founding of the artists' group, UNOVIS; Malevich's architectural
experiments; Bakhtin's circle; and important developments in theater
and music in Vitebsk. With more than two hundred outstanding
illustrations, the book brings Vitebsk to life at a fascinating and
transformative moment in art history" from the flaps of the dust
jacket. There is an excellent review "In the Beginning, There Was
Vitebsk," in the Forward by Joshua
Cohen. http://www.forward.com/articles/12913/ (56845) $28.00
postpaid within the US.
Borchardt-Hume, Achim, edited by. "Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the
Bauhaus to the New World." New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press,
2006. First American Edition. Quarto in dust jacket, b/w frontispiece
photos, 190 pp., color illustrations throughout with some b/w photos,
with writings by the artists, chronology, footnotes, selected
bibliography, list of exhibitied works, index. Hardbound. Very Good.
Articles are "Two Bauhaus Histories," Achim Borchardt-Hume,
"Mechano-Facture: Dada/ Constructivism and the Bauhaus," Michael
White, "Laszlo Moholo-Nagy: The Transnational Years," Terence A.
Senter, "The Bauhaus Idea in America," Hal Foster, "'I Want the Eyes
to Open': Josef Albers in the New World," Nicholas Fox Weber, "Laszlo
Moholy-Nagy: Transnational," Hattula Moholy-Nagy. (56846) $28.00
postpaid within the US.
Both for $45.00 postpaid within the US.
Henry Hollander, Bookseller
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San Francisco, CA 94121
tel 415-831-3228
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