The Silent Film Poster: Russia 1900-1930

Fine+ Hardcover copy in G+ dust jacket with one inch tear and small chip missing on front top-center, otherwise VF, a tall oversized folio hardcover and beautifully designed book of Russian silent film poster designs, DJ in protective Brodart covering. Published by Art-Rodnick, 192pps., 161 full color illustrations, Art-Rodnick, 1999[27.2]

Full-page reproductions of 161 Russian silent film posters are presented here in chronological order: from the very beginning of the twentieth century till the 1930s.
The introductory article by Nina Baburina well-known specialist in Russian and Soviet poster art, traces the main trends in the development of the silent film poster. The book forms a representative cross-section of the finest arts posters created over thirty years of the twentieth century.

Amongst the artists who dedicated themselves to poster art in the twenties we find Anatoly Belsky, Izrail Bograd, Grigory Borisov, Mikhail Dlugach, Iosif Gerasimovich, Anton Lavinsky, Alexander Naumov, Nikolai Prusakov, Alexander Rodchenko, Yakov Ruklevsky, and The Stenberg Brothers, best known as 2 Stenberg 2.

The introduction is accompanied by a catalogue containing a list of notes to the plates and the poster designers’ brief biographies, as well as necessary abbreviations.

$ 85.00