Argonavty 1: [illjustrirovannye sborniki po voprosam izobrazitel'nogo iskusstva i muzejnoj zhizni] (Argonauts No. 1 : [Illustrated collections on topics of fine art and museums events] [All published]

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Book condition: Good. Spine and cover fragments to the spine are professionally restored - missing pieces filled using leafcaster machine and after this conserved, creases across outer corners of the cover, cover shows some soilin..

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Book condition: Good. Spine and cover fragments to the spine are professionally restored - missing pieces filled using leafcaster machine and after this conserved, creases across outer corners of the cover, cover shows some soiling; internally creases and fingerprints across bottom outer corners of few first and last pages, ocassional minor foxing spots. 


The first and the only “Argonauts” issue was published with the editing of art historian Erich Gollerbakh (painting and applied arts), artist Dmitry Mitrohin (graphic art), architect Nikolay Lanceray (sculpture), and contained following sections of articles: Painting and graphic art; Architecture; Museums; Applied arts; Exhibitions; Artists' workshops; School of art; Bibliography; Chronicle; Illustrations (published for the first time). Among contrubutors of articles were eminent artists, art historians, researches, critics: Oskar Waldhauer, Evgeny Braudo, Dmitry Mitrohin, Sergey Chekhonin, Erich Gollerbakh, Vladimir Adarjukov, George Loukomski, Grigory Gidoni, etc. The collection illustrated throughout with 12 original works (some full-page) by renowned artists: Sergei Chekhonin, Dmitri Mitrokhin, Georgy Narbut, Konstantin Somov, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Grigory Gidoni. Lettered front wrapper, Petrograd publisher’s logo on the back wrapper and engraving used as frontispiece created by Sergey Chekhonin (1878-1936), Russian graphic artist and book illustrator, Repin’s pupil, a member of the association World of Art whose style was labelled as Soviet Empire. 

 

Title Argonavty 1: [illjustrirovannye sborniki po voprosam izobrazitel'nogo iskusstva i muzejnoj zhizni] (Argonauts No. 1 : [Illustrated collections on topics of fine art and museums events] [All published]
Author Edotors: Erich Gollerbakh; Dmitry Mitrohin; Nikolay Lanceray
Artist Cover, frontispiece and publisher’s logo by Sergey Chekhonin
Publisher Knigoizdatelʹstvo Petrograd, Leningrad
Published year 1923
Country Russia
Edition 1st edition
Binding Soft cover
Octavo Enlarged album format 23 x 28 cm
Weight 0.300 kg
No. of pages Wrappers, 92 [4] pp
Print run 2000 copies
Language Russian