Ukrainian Modernism | Blog by Eleanor Moore
Eleanor Moore curates a selection of books from our shelves following a visit to the Royal Academy's latest exhibition.
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Alexandra Ekster, kak zhivopisets i khudozhnik stseny. [Alexandra Exter as an Artist and a Theatre Designer.]
TUGENDKHOL'D, Yakov.Original price $1,288.00 - Original price $1,288.00Original price $0.00$1,288.00$1,288.00 - $1,288.00Current price $1,288.00| /The first monograph on the avant-garde artist and theatre designer. Tugendkhold's work on Alexandra Exter which he wrote in the Soviet Union was t...
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Juste Présent.
DELAUNAY, Sonia; TZARA, Tristan.Original price $25,069.00 - Original price $25,069.00Original price $0.00$25,069.00$25,069.00 - $25,069.00Current price $25,069.00| /With an additional hand-coloured etching & an extra suite of signed plates. A superb example in the original lithographed chemise and slipcase....
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Mystetstvo u Kyivi [Art in Kyiv].
NARBUT, Heorhiy (illustrator); SEMENKO, Mykhailo (editor).Original price $5,082.00 - Original price $5,082.00Original price $0.00$5,082.00$5,082.00 - $5,082.00Current price $5,082.00| /Incredibly scarce copy of Mystetstvo, an important Ukrainian art and literary journal edited by leading futurist poet, Mykhailo Semenko. Only eigh...
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Narodnoe Iskusstvo Podol'skikh Ukraintsev [Folk Art of Podolian Ukrainians].
ZAREMBSKY, Arkadii.Original price $1,627.00 - Original price $1,627.00Original price $0.00$1,627.00$1,627.00 - $1,627.00Current price $1,627.00| /A study of Podillian folk art undertaken by the Podolia Expedition of the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Museum in Leningrad.First edition...
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Ochi ta Usta [Eyes and Mouth].
RUDNYTSKY, Mykhailo; KOVZHUN, Pavlo (illustrator).Original price $2,033.00 - Original price $2,033.00Original price $0.00$2,033.00$2,033.00 - $2,033.00Current price $2,033.00| /One of 100 copies. A prose and poetry collection authored by the noted Ukrainian critic, poet and writer, Mykhailo Rudnytsky. The volume was design...
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On the Jewish Fields of the Ukraina.
RYBACK, Issachar Ber.Original price $1,627.00 - Original price $1,627.00Original price $0.00$1,627.00$1,627.00 - $1,627.00Current price $1,627.00| /Signed by the artist. Album of 25 high quality plates (five in colour), portraying Jewish labourers and craftsmen in rural Ukraine. A limited editi...
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Prygun [The Jumpers].
NARBUT, Heorhiy (artist); ANDERSEN, Hans Christian.Original price $2,507.00 - Original price $2,507.00Original price $0.00$2,507.00$2,507.00 - $2,507.00Current price $2,507.00| /Russian translation of Hans Christian Andersen's tale, Springfyrene (The Jumpers), wonderfully illustrated by one of Ukraine's greatest artists, H...
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Shtetl. My Destroyed Home - A Recollection.
RYBACK, Issachar Ber.Original price $2,643.00 - Original price $2,643.00Original price $0.00$2,643.00$2,643.00 - $2,643.00Current price $2,643.00| /A portfolio of 30 lithographs by the Ukranian-Jewish artist Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935). The lithographs dating mostly from 1917 and depict sc...
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Ternovyi vinok [Crown of Thorns].
KOVALENKO, Oleksa (editor).Original price $4,743.00 - Original price $4,743.00Original price $0.00$4,743.00$4,743.00 - $4,743.00Current price $4,743.00| /One of the iconic Ukrainian literary almanacs of the early twentieth century, this volume is a striking example of nationalist-inflected modernism...
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Tsukor [Sugar].
DIRSH, Natalia.; KOZLOVSKY, Konstantin (illustrator).Original price $2,711.00 - Original price $2,711.00Original price $0.00$2,711.00$2,711.00 - $2,711.00Current price $2,711.00| /Illustrated by the Kyiv-born artist Konstantin Kozlovsky, Tsukor is an incredibly rare example of a Soviet 'production book' printed in Ukrainian....
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U haiu [In the Grove].
KLOKOVA-LAPINA, Maria Petrovna; ERMOLENKO, Borys (illustrator).Original price $1,627.00 - Original price $1,627.00Original price $0.00$1,627.00$1,627.00 - $1,627.00Current price $1,627.00| /A richly illustrated children's book, a Ukrainian translation of a tale by Russian children's writer Mariia Klokova-Lapina (1884–1943), translated...
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Ukrain'ske Mystetstvo I. Derevli'ane budivnytstvo i rizba na derevi [Ukrainian Art I. Wooden architecture and scuplture].
SHCHERBAKIV'SKII, Vadim.Original price $475.00 - Original price $475.00Original price $0.00$475.00$475.00 - $475.00Current price $475.00| /The second and final instalment of the title was not published until 1926.First edition, 4to (28.5 x 19.5cm); xx, 61pp., profusely illustrated, so...
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Voina Gribov [War of the Mushrooms].
NARBUT, Heorhiy.Original price $2,507.00 - Original price $2,507.00Original price $0.00$2,507.00$2,507.00 - $2,507.00Current price $2,507.00| /One of Narbut's best books and a very scarce Knebel title. The king of the mushrooms, Borovik tries to get various groups of mushrooms to join the...
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Vol'che solntse. Kniga stikhov vtoraia [Wolves' Sun: Second Book of Verse].
BURLIUK, David; EXTER, Alexandra; LIVSHITS, Benedikt.Original price $3,998.00 - Original price $3,998.00Original price $0.00$3,998.00$3,998.00 - $3,998.00Current price $3,998.00| /Inscribed presentation copy. The first edition of this collection of Futurist poetry, with plates by Burliuk and two avant-garde female artists. On...
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