Pellam, John L.MareMagnum
WHO IS WHO IN CONSTRUCTIVIST THEATRE AND PHOTOMONTAGE Kto chto kogda v Moskovskom Kamernom Teatre Who what where at the Moscow Kamerny Theatre
réf. 54347Moscow: Mospoligraf 1925. Large quarto 34.5 × 26 cm. Original chromolithograph wrappers; 38 pp. Illustrations throughout from photographs drawings reproductions of stage sets and costume designs. Professional restoration to spine and wrapper edges; else about very good. A striking Constructivist album published for the tenth anniversary of the avant-garde Kamerny Theatre Chamber Theatre in Moscow founded in 1914 by the theatre innovator Aleksandr Tairov 1885-1950 with cover design and photomontage illustrations by Georgii Stenberg 1900-1933. A one-time student of Meyerkhold Tairov worked with many major avant-garde artists of his time. The album features photographs drawings and sketches for the Futurist and Constructivist set and costume designs by artists such as the painter Georgii Yakulov Princess Brambilla 1920 Aleksandra Exter Romeo and Juliet 1921; Salome 1922 Aleksandr Vesnin Phèdre 1922; The Man Who was Thursday 1924 as well as sketches for collapsible and movable set designs by the Constructivist sculptor Konstantin Medunetsky and the duo of Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg. Known as the Stenberg brothers the duo was active in sculpture stage design architecture large-scale decorations film posters and other media. After studying at the Stroganov School in Moscow they co-founded the OBMOKhU Society of Young Artists and eventually participated in an exhibition of "Constructivists" in 1922 staged together with Konstantin Medunetsky. Medunetsky also designed the interior of the theatre which is featured in the album. All three artists were members of INKhUK the Institute of Artistic Culture along with such noted members of the Soviet avant-garde as Alexander Rodchenko and Liubov' Popova. The Stenberg brothers designed numerous publications together and separately such as issues of LEF and Stroitel'stvo Moskvy. Their collaboration with the legendary Kamerny Theatre in 1922-1930 was especially productive and they designed one other title on the theatre in 1927. In 1928 the theatre fell under attack for staging Mihkail Bulgakov's satire "Crimson Island". It was closed after WWII following further attacks for "bourgeois formalism". Not in MoMA which holds a later title on the Kamerny Theatre designed by the Stenberg brothers in 1927 no. 718. As of August 2026 KVK OCLC show seven copies in North America. unknown
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