{"title":"Exhibition Catalogues","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"russian-exhibition-tokyo-1927","title":"[Russian Exhibition, 1927] ロシヤ展","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1927. Edited by Hoshino Tatsuo (星野辰男).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo. [2] pp., 6 colour plates, pp. 7–70 (ill.), 6 pp. text. Captions in Japanese and English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe catalogue of the first major exhibition of Russian art in Japan — and printed to a standard Soviet presses of the period could not match.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussian contemporary art first reached Japan in 1920, privately, through Burliuk and Pal’mov. Official exhibitions followed the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1925, but none of them produced a catalogue. The 1927 show — variously called \u003cem\u003eArt of New Russia\u003c\/em\u003e — travelled Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, drew on Bytie, AKhRR, Makovets, Zhar-Tsvet, OST and the Four Arts, and was catalogued only here, in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plates run from academic realism to the avant-garde: Petrov-Vodkin’s portrait of Anna Akhmatova, Kustodiev, Tyshler, Mashkov, Konchalovsky, Kuznetsov, Arkhipov, Yuon, Falk, Shterenberg, Lanceray, Altman, Udaltsova, Lebedev, Pakhomov, Favorsky, Kravchenko. There is a self-portrait by Aleksandr Drevin, later shot in the Great Purge, and work by Zinaida Serebriakova, who had left for Paris three years earlier. Two closing essays: Nikolay Punin on the Leningrad school, David Arkin on Moscow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal wrappers with a mounted colour reproduction after Abram Arkhipov; issued without a title page. Good: sunning to the wrappers, light rubbing, small losses and tears to the spine, rust to the staples, small losses around the edges. Fragile, but well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eRarity\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo copy located outside Japan on OCLC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asahi Shimbun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58770878693724,"sku":"SYR-001","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/item01-1.jpg?v=1787505810"},{"product_id":"maruki-hiroshima-panels-moscow-1959","title":"[Maruki Iri \u0026 Maruki Toshi] Hiroshima \/ Хиросима","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1959. Preface by Mikhail Kotov.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOblong 8vo. 16, [27] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe catalogue of the first solo exhibition in the USSR by any contemporary Japanese artist.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaruki Toshi (丸木俊, 1912–2000) and Maruki Iri (丸木位里, 1901–1995) reached Hiroshima days after the bombing to help Iri’s surviving family, and two years later began the series of painted folding screens that became \u003cem\u003eThe Hiroshima Panels\u003c\/em\u003e. American occupation censorship made showing the work at home difficult; by the late 1950s it was travelling internationally, and in 1953 the World Peace Council awarded them the International Peace Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary Japanese art was almost unknown in the USSR — relations soured by 1930, Japanologists were repressed in the Purge, and cultural exchange stopped entirely during the war. In 1959 the Panels were hung in a pavilion in Gorky Park and then toured Soviet cities. The Marukis used their own connections afterwards to bring younger Japanese artists over and to enrich Soviet collections; after they left the Japanese Communist Party and visited the United States in 1970, their names were quietly restricted, mentioned only in connection with the Panels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal wrappers and pictorial dust jacket. Good: light wear and minor losses to the jacket spine. An additional staple was inserted in error during binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eRarity\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOCLC locates a single copy — Amherst College Library.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sovetskii khudozhnik","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58770878857564,"sku":"SYR-005","price":250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/item05-1.jpg?v=1787505843"},{"product_id":"exhibition-japanese-photography-rostov-1989","title":"[Exhibition of Japanese Photography: Catalogue] Выставка японской фотографии","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRostov-on-Don: Rostov-on-Don Salon of Photography, 1989. Compiled by B. Bykov.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo. [32] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first Russian exhibition catalogue devoted to Japanese photography — and a provincial imprint at that.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapanese woodcuts and painting had Soviet scholars behind them. Japanese photography had almost none. Across sixty-five years \u003cem\u003eSovetskoe Foto\u003c\/em\u003e carried fewer than forty scattered items on the subject, and exactly one article devoted to it — a translation, \u003cem\u003eThe First Photographers in Japan\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibitions were no better. In 1929 \u003cem\u003eAsahi\u003c\/em\u003e sent photographs to the USSR that were never hung. Only two Soviet exhibitions dealt with Japanese photography alone: Tokyo 1958, and this one — and only this one produced a catalogue. Twenty photographers from the Tokyo club Arc-en-Ciel, led by Nakai Masami (中居正躺) of the Royal Photographic Society, are each given one reproduction; a closing list records all 134 works shown, among them posterisations, solarisations and montages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal pictorial wrappers, issued without a title. 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[118] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYayoi Kusama’s first appearance in the USSR.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue of the third international satire exhibition, held in Moscow in 1977 in support of the antiwar movement and against the arms race, with work from the USSR, Mongolia, Cuba, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, France, the USA, Germany, Denmark, Mexico, Colombia, Portugal and Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the contributors is Ollie Harrington (1912–1995), whom Langston Hughes called America’s greatest African-American cartoonist. And among them is Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), showing the watercolour \u003cem\u003eTidal Waves of War\u003c\/em\u003e, painted in 1977 after her return from New York, during the years of hostile Japanese press and hospitalisation. 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