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RODCHENKO, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1891-1956) and

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[Moscow]: OGIZ, 1935. Second edition. 4to (285 x 230 mm). Illustrated with photographs by Eleazar Langman, Abram Shterenberg, Soiuzfoto and the Izogiz Photolaboratory. Printed in black, gilt, red, green, brown, blue and full color, on glazed art paper, unglazed paper, 'silvered' paper, clear cellophane and colored cellophane, one leaf with a shaped panel (a silhouette of Stalin's head) removed to allow a view of the neighboring pages, a few leaves folding, the work as a whole designed by Rodchenko. Original oatmeal colored cloth, the upper cover and spine blocked in gilt and blind, pictorial endpapers. Condition: the silvered paper loosely inserted and with small chips from the outer margins; some dicoloration, light soiling. authorized edition of this controversial publication. One of 2000 copies. This ambitious photomontage album was prepared to celebrate the first decade that Uzbekistan was part of the USSR with emphasis on agricultural, cultural, artistic and economic growth during Stalin's Five Year Plan. It is filled with multi-colored photogravures, foldouts, die cuts, acetate overlays, maps and diagrams. But it was banned. Stalin had eliminated many of the local party commissars during his Purges. This copy is stamped in ink on the title page that the book was examined in 1937-1938 and then withdrawn from a state library.

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