Friche, V.M. Sociology of Art (Sotsiologiya iskusstva), 1930. In Russian

Фриче В.М. Социология искусства
Москва-Ленинград: Государственное издательство, 1930.
Тираж 10 000 экз.
203 стр.: ил. Твердый переплет; обычный формат (16 х 22.5 см).
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Friche, V.M. Sotsiologiya iskusstva. [Sociology of Art].
Moscow-Leningrad: State Publishing House (Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo), 1930.
Print run: 10,000 copies.
203 pp.: ill. Hardcover, tinted endpapers; standard format (16 x 22.5 cm).

This 1930 volume, "Sociology of Art," is a foundational work by Vladimir Maksimovich Friche (1870–1929), a leading early Soviet literary scholar, art critic, and sociologist. Published posthumously, the book represents a key text in the development of Marxist methodology in the humanities in the USSR. Friche, who headed major academic institutions like the Institute of Literature and Language at RANION and the literary department of the Communist Academy, sought to establish a materialist understanding of art history, analyzing artistic phenomena through the lens of social and economic structures. Published by the State Publishing House in a significant print run of 10,000 copies, this illustrated hardcover edition with tinted endpapers was intended for a broad audience of scholars, students, and the ideological intelligentsia. The work is a historical document of early Soviet theoretical thought, reflecting the attempts to create a new, socialist science of art.