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FILONOV, Pavel Nikolaevich (1883-1941) (illustrato

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Leningrad: "Krasnaya Gazeta," 1930. 96 pp., small square 8vo (171 x 130 mm). Original cream thick paper wrappers printed in brown with title on upper cover, and illustrations on both covers after Filonov. Condition: diagonal crease to pp. 55/56; light soiling to covers, creasing to upper cover, small tears to extremities. Filonov was one of the most extraordinary of the Russian avant-garde painters, but he contributed to few books. As a member of the Soiuz molodezhi or the Union of Youth and a friend of Vladimir Mayakovsky and other Futurists, he developed Analytical Realism, an anti-Cubist manner of painting. He argued that painting must reflect the artist's inner soul rather than the surface of things. He had many disciples and many defamers. A large restrospective of his work was ready to open in 1929, but the Soviet authorities shut it down. His highly individual art was the antithesis of Socialist Realism. The ban on exhibiting his work was not lifted until 1967. Glebov-Putilovskii's novel describes life and struggle of revolutionaries living abroad during Lenin-Plehanov times.

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