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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 12x11x0; The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 4to. 254pp.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Large hardback in near fine condition with very good minus dust jacket. Jacket has some small edge tears. Text in English.
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VG/VG. Black cloth/boards with gilt lettering on spine. Color-illus. dj with yellow lettering on black spine. 254 pp. with 216 bw figures and 28 color plates. BW frontis. A chronologically-organized study of this Russian multi-media artist's life and work. Parton traces Larionov's career from Russia, where he began as an Impressionist painter, to those in France, where, with his lifelong partner, Nataliya Goncharova, he designed sets for the Ballet Russes. A highly-nuanced investigation shedding new and more accurate information on Larionov's life and work. Contents as follows: 1. Tiraspol to Myasnitskaya Ulitsa 1881-1908--2. The Golden Fleece 1908-1910--3. The Jack of Diamonds and Donkey's Tail 1910-1912--4. The Futurists Take Command 1913-1914--5. Russian Folk Art and the Sources of Neo-Primitivism--6. Antiquity and the Buryat Shaman--7. The Cubist and Futurist Roots of Rayism--8. The Modern Prometheus: Ouspensky's Four-Dimensional Superman--9. Towards an Avant-Garde Theatre 1914-1917--10. Up and Coming in Paris and London 1917-1919--11. Montparnasse Bienvenue 1919-1929--12. Zhizn' Prokhodit, Lyubov' Net 1930-1964--Principal Exhibitions and Catalogues. A revolutionary multi-media artist and flamboyant personality, Mikhail Larionov galvanized the art scene in the early twentieth century, striving for a truly Russian style of art to rival the avant-garde movement of Europe and setting the stage for Russian constructivism. With his life-long partner, Nataliya Goncharova, he led his generation in exploring mysticism and shamanism and created a counterculture that flourished in the cabarets of Moscow. The development of his career, however, has long eluded the grasp of historians, partly because Larionov, ever conscious of his role in art history, backdated many of his paintings, set designs, and graphic works. In this richly illustrated book, the first in-depth treatment of the life and oeuvre of Larionov, Anthony Parton reconstructs an important episode in the story of the Russian avant-garde. In vivid detail Parton traces the stylistic and chronological development of Larionov's career: from his years in Russia, where he began as an Impressionist painter and eventually organized the Moscow Futurists, to those in France, where, with Goncharova, he designed sets for the Ballets Russes and joined the School of Paris. At the same time he captures the rebellious nature of an artist devoted to demonstrating the spirit of the avant-garde-whether by hurling ice water at his lecture audiences to incite their rage, by incorporating vulgar graffiti into his paintings, or by setting a popular Muscovite trend for painting one's face. Inspired early in his career by the French Fauves and primitives, Larionov, in his attempt to create an authentically Russian art, borrowed images from shamanism and archaeology and devices from folk art, particularly wood-block prints and icons. His interest in cubism, futurism, and contemporary scientific ideas led to his creation of rayism, which played on the concept of a fourth dimension. In the performing arts, he experimented with movable scenery and choreographed lighting. Examining Larionov's artistic intentions in all these areas, Parton pays close attention to contextual factors as important determinants upon the artist's work. He constructs a reliable chronology of Larionov's career, drawing on his personal writings and manifestos, on contemporary reviews, and on interviews with his friends and colleagues. Through this multi-faceted, highly nuanced investigation, Parton offers the most extensive and accurate treatment to date of an important yet long inscrutable artist.
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Larionov, Mikhail. Fine in fine jacket. Illustrated. xxiv + 254pp., 4to, cloth, d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1993). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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As New in As New jacket. Size: 4to 11"-13" tall; A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf-and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Stuffed with many score black-and-white and full-color, often full-page illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Included also is an extensive list of principal exhibitions and catalogues. xxiv (1) + 254 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.