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IVANOV, Evgenii Pavlovich. Russkii narodnyi lubok

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[Moscow]: IZOGIZ, 1937. 148 pp., folio (310 x 240 mm). Extensively illustrated in color and black and white and includes 5 duotones, and 2 folding color inserts. Publisher's pale blue cloth, spine lettered in red, decorative colored paper labels on front and back boards, decorated endpapers. Condition: spine lightly faded, intermittent minor spotting to gutters. a profusely illustrated scholarly survey of the lubki or russian popular prints. These crudely engraved and often coarsely colored broadsheets were a true Russian folk art. Their subjects ran from folklore to political and religious commentary. Ivan Bilibin, Natalya Goncharova, Georgii Narbut and other twentieth-century artists found inspiration in these vulgar and vigorous prints. They were revived during the Russo-Japanese and many artists including Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Mayakovsky produced satirical lubki during World War I.

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