Description: THE SOVIET POLITICAL POSTER 1917 - 1980 by Nina Baburina 1985 Collection of Posters from The Lenin Library in Moscow 204 pages with 183 full-page color plates Nina Baburina [Text and Selection]: THE SOVIET POLITICAL POSTER 1917 - 1980. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1985. First English edition [First published by Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers, Moscow, 1984], second printing 1988. Folio. Photo illustrated paper wrappers. Matching Publishers slipcase. 204 pp. 183 full-page color plates. Red spine lightly sunned. Textblock remains tight and secure. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Design by Mikhail Anikst. Slipcase neatly separating at the glued tabs (easily repairable) and lightly edge worn. A nearly fine copy in a good slipcase. 11.5 x 16.25 soft cover book with 204 pages and 183 full-page color plates in a cardboard slipcase. From the publisher: "An introductory article outlines the principal trends in the development of Soviet political poster design. An essay on the history of the collection introduces the colour plates. The references include a catalogue and brief biographies of the poster designers." Designers include Alexander Apsit, Veniamin Briskin, Mikhail Cheremynkh, Alexander Deinika, Viktor Deni, Nikolai Denisov and Nina Vatolina, Leonid Golovanov, Viktor Govorkov, Konstantin Ivanov, Pyotr Karachentsov, Gustav Klutsis, Nikolai Kochergin, Alexei Kokorekin, Viktor Koretsky, The Kukryniksy Group, Vladimir Lebedev, El Lissitzky, Miron Lukyanov and Vasily Ostrovsky, Vladimir Lyushin, Ivan Malyutin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Dmitry Moor, Oleg Savostyuk and Boris Ouspensky and Maria Alexandrovan Voron among many many others. In a country where illiteracy was endemic, posters played a critical role in the conversion of the masses to the new social order. Graphic design, particularly as applied in the political placard, was a highly useful instrument for agitation, as it was both direct and economical. Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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