[FIREBIRD - RUSSIAN ART REBORN] Zhar-ptitsa: Ezhemesiachnyi literaturno-khudozhestvennyi illustrirovannyi zhurnal [i.e. Firebird: A Monthly Literary Artistic Magazine]

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Berlin; Paris: Russkoe iskusstvo, 1921-1926. #1-14. Ca. 32x25 cm. Every issue in illustrated wrappers. Generally very good, some mild soiling, with tiny tears and losses of the spine (#1,2,12,14), foxing and piece of tape on the spine (#13). A complete set. Extremely rare in wrappers. Lavishly illustrated throughout with black and white and color plates with captions. Print run was approximately 300 copies. Zhar-ptitsa is 'perhaps the most famous of post-revolutionary art journals, whose contributors threw new light on the development of Russian art at the beginning of the twentieth century' (Fekula). By the early 1920s, a large Russian emigre colony had formed in Germany, and the hyperinflation that swept over the country turned it into a paradise for publishers who found the conditions under which the output of books was much cheaper than anywhere else in Western Europe. All this caused a 'Russian book boom' on the banks of the Rhine: about 50 Russian publishers worked in Berlin at that time. That's where Firebird was born thanks to the first Russian emigrants. The editorial board and the financing of the magazine was taken over by the owner of the publishing house 'Russian Art' A.E. Kogan, the editor of the art department was a well-known art historian and artist G.K. Lukomsky, and Sasha Cherny was in charge of the the literary department (it was mostly published articles of Russian emigrants of the 1920s). Among organizers of the magazine was Vladimir Nabokov. When the af

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