Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design, 1917-37 (Kiosk Books) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568980744 ISBN 13: 9781568980744

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996

Synopsis

Covering the first decades of the Soviet Union, from the Civil War to the end of Stalin's Second Five-Year Plan in the 1930s, the graphic works in Building the Collective provide a remarkable overview of design during one of this century's most politically turbulent and artistically active periods. These designs, from the collection of Merrill C. Berman, challenge assumptions of a monolithic Soviet poster style, conveying the impressive range of graphic design as it responded to a rapidly evolving political situation. Providing historical context and focusing on images of labor, industrialization, and technology, Building the Collective demonstrates how the ideological imperative of imagining a new collective society existed in a fertile and sometimes contradictory relationship with the artists' efforts to redefine their role in post-revolutionary Russia.
Building the Collective showcases over 100 posters and other graphic works, representing the talents of a wide variety of artists, from the acclaimed to the anonymous. Color reproductions of works by Gustav Klutsis, Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and the Stenberg brothers - as well as those of lesser-know but important designers such as Aleksandr Deineka, Viktor Deni, and Elena Semenova - are shown alongside posters created by "brigades" of designers who worked collectively and anonymously in the spirit of the times.

About this title

Synopsis

The catalog to an exhibit at Columbia University's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery which showcases over 100 poster designs created during the first decades after the founding of the Soviet state from the Civil War through the Second Five-Year Plan. Features color reproductions of all included works, historical essays, and short biographies of

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568980744
• ISBN 13: 9781568980744
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Dickerman Leah