The New Spirit in the Russian Theatre 1917-1928;
and a sketch of the Russian kinema and radio 1917-28, showing the new communal relationship between the three.
Stock Code 107313
London, Brentano's, 1929
Original price
$149.00
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Original price
$149.00
Original price
$149.00
$149.00
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$149.00
Current price
$149.00
A comprehensive and profusely illustrated study on the groundbreaking work of the Kamerny theatre group, Alexandra Exter, Meyerhold and many others. The author writes, 'the book deals with a revolution in the theatre which is not political, but the result of a conception of the theatre in accordance with the necessities of the epoch'.
First edition, 8vo (25 x 17 cm); xxii, 348pp., frontispiece in colour and black and white illustrations throughout, top edge black; publisher's black cloth gilt, vignette an Alexandra Exter design to upper cover in gilt, without the dust jacket, a fine example.
First edition, 8vo (25 x 17 cm); xxii, 348pp., frontispiece in colour and black and white illustrations throughout, top edge black; publisher's black cloth gilt, vignette an Alexandra Exter design to upper cover in gilt, without the dust jacket, a fine example.
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