![AVANT-GARDE PERIODICAL. Iskusstvo Kommuny [Art of the Commune.] Petrograd: IZO NKP [Visual Arts Section of the People's Commissariat for Enlightenment], December 7, 1918-April 13, 1919..](http://images2.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2012-11/01/8665833-2-1.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "AVANT-GARDE PERIODICAL. Iskusstvo Kommuny [Art of the Commune.] Petrograd: IZO NKP [Visual Arts Section of the People's Commissariat for Enlightenment], December 7, 1918-April 13, 1919..
Estimate: US$ 9,000 - 12,000, £5,800 - 7,700, €6,700 - 9,000")
AVANT-GARDE PERIODICAL.
Iskusstvo Kommuny [Art of the Commune.] Petrograd: IZO NKP [Visual Arts Section of the People's Commissariat for Enlightenment], December 7, 1918-April 13, 1919.
19 issues. Broadsheet journal, 460 x 300 mm, each issue 4 pp. Lightly browned, some cross folds cracked or torn, edges slightly chipped.
A COMPLETE RUN OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AVANT-GARDE JOURNALS ISSUED IN PETROGRAD. The publication was founded by Mayakovsky, Lissitzky and others, and featured contributions from nearly all of the leading avant-garde figures. Each issue comprises 4 pages of reviews, artistic news, poems, and essays. Some of Mayakovsky's "best poems of the period 1918-1919 were first published [in Iskusstvo Kommuny] as what might be termed 'poetic editorials'" (Rudy p 281). Rarely seen in its complete form. Rowell and Wye The Russian Avant-Garde Book p 164.
19 issues. Broadsheet journal, 460 x 300 mm, each issue 4 pp. Lightly browned, some cross folds cracked or torn, edges slightly chipped.
A COMPLETE RUN OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST AVANT-GARDE JOURNALS ISSUED IN PETROGRAD. The publication was founded by Mayakovsky, Lissitzky and others, and featured contributions from nearly all of the leading avant-garde figures. Each issue comprises 4 pages of reviews, artistic news, poems, and essays. Some of Mayakovsky's "best poems of the period 1918-1919 were first published [in Iskusstvo Kommuny] as what might be termed 'poetic editorials'" (Rudy p 281). Rarely seen in its complete form. Rowell and Wye The Russian Avant-Garde Book p 164.
Estimate:
US$ 9,000 - 12,000
£5,800 - 7,700
€6,700 - 9,000
£5,800 - 7,700
€6,700 - 9,000
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