[SOCIALIST REALISM] Social Kunst. Nos. 1; 2; 5; 6; 7; 9

A$900 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

København : Mondes Forlag; Oslo : Fram Forlag, 1932. Six individual issues (of the nine issued) : no. 1. Aksel Jørgensen ; 2. Anton Hansen ; 5. Robert Storm Petersen ; 6. Tegnekunsten i Sovjetunionen (=Design in the Soviet Union); 7. Anton Hansen, anden samling ; 9. George Grosz . Uniform small quarto (260 x 200 mm), pictorial card covers (no. 6 in colour), all illustrated with b/w plates (issue no. 6 also with several colour plates); the covers of some issues with paper loss to spine or sunning, lower wrapper of no. 7 detached; internally sound and clean throughout all six issues. A short-lived but important Scandinavian journal of the early 1930s dedicated to Socialist realism. Issue number 6 ( Design in the Soviet Union ) is particularly important and sought-after, and includes poster art by Deinek, Lebedef, Feschin, Annenkof, Moor and other significant artists. Unrecorded in Australian collections.

• Binding: Hardcover

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