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Russian avant garde

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 260 Collections and/or Records:

Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. No.2/Sum-Fall / Pamela Johnson, editor ; Sackner RK ; Mallarme S ; Delaunay S ; Lewis WP ; Marinetti FT ; Iliazd ; Phillips T., 1986

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Identifier: CC-39110-41052
Scope and Contents Ruth Sackner contributed an essay to this issue titled "the Avant-Garde Book: Precursor of Concrete and Visual Poetry and the Artist's Book." Writing about Tom Phillips' A Humument, she stated "The blending of literature, poetry, and visual art is extremely successful in the work of Tom Phillips. In the main, his work derives from personal intellectual explorations, mythological languages, historic paintings, postcard images, and classical literature and poetry. These are presented in an amazing variety of artistic formats. Tom Phillips has used the book in particular to span the distinction between word and image, for as he says, "in a sense, because A Humument is less than what it started with, it is a paradoxical embodiment of Mallarme's idea that everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."" "Ending as a book" may very well be the credo of contemporary book artists who knowingly continue the ideas of the avant-garde and the concrete and vis-ual poets into our...
Dates: 1986

Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. No.14/Fall / Pamela Johnson, editor., 1989

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Identifier: CC-08191-8352
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Russian Book Arts on the Eve of World War One: The New York Public Library Collections by Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis illustrates "Explodity" by Kruchenykh and "Gardners Above the Vines" by Goncharova held in Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Kurskym Delnikum Prozatimni Pomnik / Rozkov, Juri ; Mayakovsky, Vladimir ; Jiri Taufer, translator ; Picasso P ; Carra C ; Marinetti FT ; Apollinaire G ; Hausmann R ; Grosz G ; Rodchenko A., 1982

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Identifier: CC-35672-37422
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The book reproduces 17 colored photomontages done by Rozkov in 1924 to illustrate Mayakovsky's poem, "To the Workers of Kursk who Extracted the First Ore - A Provisional Memorial of the Work of Vladimir Mayakovsky." These photomontages were included in an exhibition of Rozkov's work in 1930. Nothing is known about Rozkov's life. This book is stored on one of the 'M' shelves. Not listed in any library on the internet (2012). Includes an introductory essay by Vladimir Remes. Translation of Mayakovsky's 1923 poem into Czech by Jiri Taufer. Yuri Rozhkov, a student at the Vkhutemas State High School for Art and Design created the included color photomontages using lines from Mayakovsky's poem and presented them to the artist. They were included in Mayakovsky's 1928 exhibition "Twenty Years of Work." The original of the montages are currently housed in the collection of the State Literary Museum, Moscow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Letter to Ruth Sackner] / Curtay, Jean-Paul; Sackner RK; Rodchenko A., 1985

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Identifier: CC-17834-18204
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Draft of letter regarding Curtay sending the Franklin Furnace exhibition catalogs. The card depicts a photographic image by Rodchenko. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Lowe Museum Members Newsletter. Mar-Apr / Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1983

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Identifier: CC-06168-6282
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Announcement of the exhibition of the Sackners' Russian Avant Garde collection at the Lowe Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Maiakovski Poemas, 1982

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Identifier: CC-14874-15187
Scope and Contents

The book, "Pro Eto" by Mayakowsky, held by the Sackner Archive, is reproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Maitre D'Oeuvre du Livre Moderne / Iliazd ; LeGris-Bergmann F ; Chapon F ; Gayraud R., 1984

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Identifier: CC-37139-38982
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The exhibition was curated by Francoise Le Gris-Bergmann. It featured essays about segments of Iliazd's work, e.g., 41 degrees (Regis Gayraud), illustrated books (Francois Le Gris-Bergmann), bibliography (Francois Chapon). The book also includes several translations from the Russian to French of his letters and notes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984