Editor: Mildred Constantine, Alan Fern
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Publication: 1974, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 98
Size: 235 x 310
Text: English
ISBN: 0801816416
(Preface) 'There is no other book in the field like this one. It illustrates the unique relationship between filmmaking and the graphic arts which developed in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
Russian artists after the Revolution were as active, creative, and radical as were Soviet political and social reformers. Talented film and poster makers were immediately enlisted in the task of conveying the educational, political, and cultural messages of the Revolution to the semiliterate masses. Of all the posters produced in this rush of activity, the film posters were artistically the most exciting, advanced, and original. They represent some of the most exceptional work done by Russian Constructivist artists in the twenties.
In the following decade, however, these graphic innovations lost their official sanction. Socialist Realism was designated the new vehicle for revolutionary artistic expression. The Soviet film posters, therefore, have been lost to three generations of scholars and designers. Most of them have not been displayed or even seen for more than forty years and are now rehabilitated for the first time...'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Rubbing, tanning and markings to cover/edges. Fading to spine/cover.
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