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CHAIKOV, Iosif Moisevich [Joseph Tchaikov] (1888-1

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Kiev: Kultur Liga, 1922. 36 pp., 8vo (180 x 113 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by I. Chaikov. Condition: wrappers lightly discolored, light pencil marks to bottom of front wrapper. one of 3000 copies. Chaikov was a Jewish sculptor, graphic artist, teacher and art theoretician. He studied with Natan Aronson in Paris from 1910 to 1913 and at the School of Decorative Arts and the School of Liberal Arts. On his return to Russia in 1914, he became active in many Jewish artists' organizations. In 1918 he helped found the Kultur Liga Art Section in Kiev. He also frequently contributed to Yiddish books and magazines. He worked in Berlin in 1922 and 1923 and participated in sections of Soviet art in the Berlin International Exposition. In 1925 he joined the Association of Soviet Sculptors (ORS) in Moscow and another artists' association "Four Arts." He also taught sculpture in an art and technical institute. Perets (1895-1952) was an important Soviet Jewish poet, playwright and novelist who wrote in Yiddish. Although he embraced the Russian Revolution and was later awarded the Order of Lenin in 1939, he was accused of Zionism as a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Stalin executed him along with other Jewish writers on the Night of the Murdered Poets of August 12, 1952. Di Kupe was written in response to the Ukrainian pogroms of 1919 to 1920. MoMA 374.

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