{"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","url":"https:\/\/syrovatskaya.com\/products\/russian-exhibition-tokyo-1927","provider":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}