Pivetta, A.M. et al.Livre Rare Book
Art for the Workers: Theatre Film Musik Painting" ИÑкуÑÑтво трудÑщимÑÑ : театр кино музыка живопиÑÑŒ. Iskusstvo trudiaschimsia : teatr kino muzyka zhivopisʹ = . Thirty original issues 1924-26
rif. 81750Moscow. Gos. Izd-vo. Thirty weekly numbers issued from 1924-1926. Issues from 1924-25 tall quarto 30.5cm x 23cm; issues for 1926 in slightly smaller format 26cm x 18cm; all in stapled pictorial wrappers with inset portraits of prominent actors musicians and artists within a graphical border printed in red and black; most issues 32pp. Illustrated from photographs. A few with mild edge-staining to wrappers; text lightly tanned or covers tenuously attached on some issues; the majority Very Good overall complete and Good or better. Text in Russian cyrillic. Includes: 1924: No. 2 Dec. 9-16; no.3 Dec. 16-21 1925: No. 6 Jan 6-11; no. 7; 91822-2732-4144-485556 Dec 22 1926: No.16 Apr 20 17-18 double issue-and final issue-Apr 27 Together thirty of the seventy-five numbers issued between December 1924 and April 1926 when publication ceased. Iskusstvo Trudiaschimsia was a weekly review of revolutionary art and performance produced under the auspices of the Science and Art Section of the State Academic Council under the directorship of the important revolutionary apparatchik theorist and avant-garde playwright Anatoly Lunacharsky whose important theoretical essay "Is it Not Time to Organize the Glaviskusstvo" appears in the magazine's third issue. Perhaps not surprisingly given the Lunacharsky connection content is heavily focused on the performing arts including theater music and cinema: Lunacharsky believed that of all forms of artistic expression theater had the greatest potential for the education and radicalization of the proletariat. The plastic arts are considered as well but far less frequently. A good idea of the overall focus of Iskusstvo trudiaschimsia can be gotten by scanning the contents of the third issue: in addition to the aforementioned Lunacharsky essay on the establishment of a state arts directorate Glaviskusstvo would eventually be established in 1928 there appears a theoretical essay "Against Aestheticism" by Anatoly Glebov; a discussion by director Ivan Platon of the staging of Turgenev's "Fortune's Fool" at the Maly Theater; a review of V. Nikiforov's play "Airplane" at the State Children's Theatre; an illustrated article on traditional music of the Crimea by the noted musicologist Arkady Konchevsky; and numerous short articles and reviews some signed with initials or pseudonyms others by such figures as A.M. Granovsky Aleksei Rodionov Viktor Krasyn David Shterenberg and others. There are in addition extensive listings for theatrical and orchestral performances film screenings and art exhibitions in Moscow and environs. A significant if short-lived arts journal from the Proletkult period offering valuable insight to the development of revolutionary theatre in the years immediately following the Revolution. Somewhat uncommon in the West with scattered issues appearing on the market infrequently; cohesive runs are rarely offered outside of Russia. OCLC notes only four American institutions with physical holdings all incomplete. unknown
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