Pikasso i okrestosti [Picasso and Environs].
Moscow: Tsentrifuga, 1917. 62 pp. 4to (270 x 205 mm). Title in purple and red. 8 pages of publisher’s advertisements at end. With 12 photogravures of works by Picasso. Original wrappers with pictorial label by Alexandra Exter. Condition : front wrapper partially detached with soiling, backstrip chipped at extremities with some loss, rubber stamps to back cover, corners creased. an important early theoretical treatise on Cubism and its aesthetics featuring Alexandra Exter’s striking cover design. One of a 1000 copies. In the 1920s, Aksenov was close to the Constructivists and worked in the theatre of Vsevolod Meierkhold, also serving as the dean of its directors’ school. Critic, poet, and translator, he was an outstanding representative of the genre crossing and internationalist spirit of Russian avant-garde art. MoMA 148.
Pikasso i okrestosti [Picasso and Environs].
Moscow: Tsentrifuga, 1917. 62 pp. 4to (270 x 205 mm). Title in purple and red. 8 pages of publisher’s advertisements at end. With 12 photogravures of works by Picasso. Original wrappers with pictorial label by Alexandra Exter. Condition : front wrapper partially detached with soiling, backstrip chipped at extremities with some loss, rubber stamps to back cover, corners creased. an important early theoretical treatise on Cubism and its aesthetics featuring Alexandra Exter’s striking cover design. One of a 1000 copies. In the 1920s, Aksenov was close to the Constructivists and worked in the theatre of Vsevolod Meierkhold, also serving as the dean of its directors’ school. Critic, poet, and translator, he was an outstanding representative of the genre crossing and internationalist spirit of Russian avant-garde art. MoMA 148.
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