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Books and Journals
All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition
El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890–1941) and Solomon Telingater
Vsesoiuznaia Poligraficheskaia vystavka (All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition), VSKhV (All-Union Agricultural Exhibition), Moscow. Moscow: Komitet poligraficheskoi vystavki (Committee of the Printing Trades Exhibition), 1927
Letterpress on paper
Closed: 7 x 5 x 1/2” (17.6 x 12.5 x 1 cm); open: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2” (29 x 22 cm)
Komsomol: Pages of an Epic
Alexander Bezymensky, Komsomoliia: Stranitsy epopei (Komsomol: Pages of an Epic). Moscow-Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928
Cover: metallic ink on linen; letterpress (52 numbered pages)
13 1/2 x 10 3/8” (34.2 x 26.3 cm)
Note: “Komsomol” is an acronym for Kommunisticheskii Soiuz molodezhi (Communiust Youth Union).
Kirsanov is Called Upon to Speak
Book: Semen Kirsanov, Slovo predostavliaetsia Kirsanovu (Kirsanov is Called Upon to Speak). Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo (State Publishing House), 1930
Letterpress
8 x 3 1/8” (20.3 x 7.9 cm)
Artists Brigade
Brigada Khudozhnikov (Artists Brigade), no. 1 (1931). Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo
Offset lithography and letterpress on paper (32 numbered pages)
11 1/2 x 8 1/2” (29 x 21.7 cm)
Note: Brigada Khudozhnikov (Artists Brigade) was published from 1931 to 1932. Solomon Telingater was the artistic director.
Five-Year Plan
Semyon Kirsanov, Piatiletka (Five-Year Plan). Moscow and Leningrad: State Publishing House Art and Literature, 1931.
Cover: metallic ink on linen; letterpress and lithograph (173 numbered pages with 16 photographs and a fold-out map)
7 7/8 x 11” (20 x 28 cm); unfolded map: 25 3/4 x 18 1/2” (65.6 x 47.2 cm)
The Year 1914: A Documentary Pamphlet
Book: Ilya Feinberg, 1914-i: Dokumental’nyi pamphlet (The Year 1914: A Documentary Pamphlet). Moscow: MTP (The Moscow Association of Writers), 1934
Cover: metallic ink on linen; letterpress and lithograph
9 13/16 x 7" (25 x 17.7 cm)
John Heartfield: Monograph
Sergei Tret’iakov and Solomon Telingater, Dzhon Khartfilʹd: Monografiia (John Heartfield: Monograph). [Moscow]: Ogiz, 1936
Hardcover (case-binding) letterpress, halftone, and two tipped-in plates (79 numbered pages)
11 3/4 x 9 3/16” (29.8 x 23.3 cm)
Book Cover Proofs
Printer’s proof: B. Neiman, Metodika raboty s knigoi (Methods of Working with a Book).
Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo (State Publishing House), 1928
Letterpress
8 1/8 x 11 3/8” (20.5 x 28.9 cm)
Printer’s proof: Katalog knig: Khudozhestvennaia literature, Memuarnaia literature (Catalogue of Books: Literature, Memoirs)
Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo (State Publishing House), 1929
Letterpress
9 1/4 x 14” (23.7 x 35.5 cm)
Printer’s proof: Standarty formatov knizhnoi produktsii (Standard Rules for Formats of Book Production)
[Moscow-Leningrad]: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo (State Publishing House), 1930
Letterpress
8 x 11 1/2” (20.2 x 29.3 cm)
Printer’s proof or advertising flyer: Esther Emden, Vsegda gotov! Immer Bereit! Toujours prêt! Always Ready!
[Moscow-Leningrad]: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo (State Publishing House), 1930
Lithograph
9 x 14 1/2” (24 x 36.8 cm), folded
Note: One side of this sheet reproduces the front and back cover of the book, plus two interior pages; the other side repeats the black ink sections of these motifs only (the orange-red sections are omitted). It is unclear if this is a printer’s proof or an advertising flyer.
Posters
Solomon Telingater and Aleksei Kravchenko (Russian, 1889–1940)
Poster: Vsesoiuznaia poligraficheskaia vystavka, 1917–1927 (All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition, 1917–1927), VSKhV (All-Union Agricultural Exhibition), 1927
Lithograph
42 3/8 x 27 3/8” (107.6 x 69.5 cm)
Note: A supplementary piece of printed paper is adhered at the upper right corner providing the opening date: August 6.
Solomon Telingater and Nikolai Sedelnikov (Russian, 1905–1994)
Poster: Podpisyvaites’ na edinstvennyi studencheskii massovyi illustrirovannyi zhurnal “Krasnoe studenchestvo,” 1928-1929 uchebnyi god (Subscribe to the only student mass illustrated journal Krasnoe studenchestvo [Red Students’ Life], 1928-29 academic year) c. 1928
Lithograph
27 1/2 x 21 1/4” (19 x 54 cm)
Poster: Poligrafiheskaia tekhnika: Ezhemesiachnyi massovyi zhurnal p o voprosam tekhniki i obmenu opytom (Printing Technique: Monthly Journal on Technical Issues and Exchange of Experience), c. 1930s
Letterpress
18 1/8 x 13 1/8 x 22 1/8” (46 x 33 x 56 cm)
Poster: Exhibition of six years of work by the artistic collective “Kukryniksy” (M. Kupreyanov, P. Krylov, N. Sokolov), Maxim Gorky Club of Soviet Writers, Moscow, 1932
Letterpress
39 1/8 x 27 1/2" (99.3 x 69.8 cm)
Note: Telingater also served as the exhibition designer.
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