signed first edition
1933 · Moscow
by Favorski, Vladimir; Boyarsky, Y. O.; Popov, Alexey; Gorodinsky, V. M.; Pavlinov, P. Y.; Goncharov, A. D.; [Favorsky, Vladimir]
Moscow: ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО МОСОБЛИСПОЛКОМА, 1933. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First printing of this examination of the Moscow Revolutionary Theater, established in 1922 to stage productions that promoted Soviet ideology – with signed woodcut print by Vladimir Favorsky. Russian graphic artist, art critic, and woodcut illustrator Vladimir Favorsky (also transliterated as Favorski) blended the traditional and the modern in his art. He helmed the Russian state art and technical school Vkhutemas – often compared in style and philosophy to Bauhaus – as rector during a tumultuous period in the 1920s, during which he resisted government efforts (truncated)