Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Donor's Statement / Harvey S. Shipley Miller -- Art Issues/Book Issues: An Overview / Deborah Wye -- A Game in Hell, hard work in heaven: Deconstructing the Canon in Russian Futurist Books / Nina Gurianova -- Primitivism in Russian Futurist Book Design 1910-14 / Jared Ash -- Kruchenykh contra Gutenberg / Gerald Janecek -- Constructivist Book Design: Shaping the Proletarian Conscience / Margit Rowell -- Plates -- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art
Summary
The focus of this study is the book format as produced by Russian avant-garde artists and poets from 1910 to 1934. This period saw a remarkable proliferation of books in which artists were involved, and such books played a fundamental role in the aesthetic thinking of the day. Radical new forms appearing in both painting and poetry in the teens, offered by a close-knit community of artists and poets, provided the impetus
Notes
Illustrations on endpapers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289) and index