Russian Samizdat Art: Essays by John E. Bowlt, Szymon Bojko, Rimma and Valery Gerlovin

limited edition with six prints

An excellent reference work on Russian art, from book design at the beginning of the twentieth century through to the Moscow Conceptualist movement of the 70s and 80s.

The six Russian artists represented here are: Vagrich Bakhchanyan 'Flag'; Michael Chernyshov 'Turret'; Rimma Gerlovina 'Flat Cube'; Valery Gerlovin 'Out of the Wall', Henry Khudyakov 'The Big Cig', and Komar and Melamid 'Venice From the Book Text'.

First edition, first impression, one of 125 copies with a suite of six prints; 8vo (23 x 16 cm), 210pp., numerous black and white illustrations in the text, additional portfolio of six prints in colour after six different artists, with tissue guards, each numbered on the reverse and five of the six signed by the artists in pencil; book and portfolio in publisher's red cloth, housed in a red cloth slipcase with title in white and black design printed to upper cover, a fine copy.