{"product_id":"marshak-s-riddles-zagadki-illustrated-by-lev-yudin-1937-in-russian-unovis-avant-garde","title":"Marshak, S. Riddles (Zagadki) \/ illustrated by Lev Yudin, 1937. In Russian. UNOVIS. Avant-garde","description":"\u003cp\u003eМаршак, Самуил Яковлевич. Загадки \/ рис. Л. Юдина. 2-е изд.\u003cbr\u003eМосква ; Ленинград : Детиздат ЦК ВЛКСМ, 1937. 10 с., ил. ; 19,7 × 14,3 см.\u003cbr\u003eИздательская иллюстрированная обложка. Тираж 100 000 экз. \u003cbr\u003eСостояние хорошее: обложка с характерным пожелтением картона, небольшими потёртостями; скоба цела; на странице «Отгадки» разрыв с утратой бумаги у нижнего края.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eMarshak, Samuil Yakovlevich. Zagadki [Riddles] \/ illustrated by Lev Alexandrovich Yudin. Second edition.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow ; Leningrad : Detizdat TsK VLKSM (Children's Publishing House of the Central Committee of the Komsomol), 1937. 10 pp., illustrated ; 19.7 × 14.3 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's illustrated paper wrappers, staple-bound. Print run of 100,000 copies. \u003cbr\u003eCondition good: wrappers with characteristic yellowing of the orange cardboard stock, minor surface wear; staple intact; tear with paper loss at lower edge of the \"Otgadki\" (Answers) page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis small-format booklet contains nine riddles in verse by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (1887-1964) - four-time Stalin Prize laureate, the dominant figure of Soviet children's literature and the founder of the celebrated \"Marshak Academy,\" the collaborative circle of Leningrad writers and illustrators that produced some of the most remarkable children's books of the Soviet period. The text contains Marshak's characteristic verse riddles about everyday objects of modern Soviet life - gramophone, bathtub, spectacles, electric light bulb, stove, bath - set against traditional rural imagery.\u003cbr\u003eThe illustrations are the work of Lev Alexandrovich Yudin (1903-1941), graphic artist, painter, and one of the central figures of the Leningrad avant-garde. Yudin joined Kazimir Malevich's studio as a schoolboy, studied at the Vitebsk Institute under Malevich, and moved with him to Petrograd in 1922. He was a member of UNOVIS (Affirmers of New Art) and a researcher at GINKhUK (State Institute of Artistic Culture) under Malevich until its liquidation in 1926. In the late 1920s and 1930s he collaborated with Vladimir Lebedev, Vladimir Kurdov, Yuri Vasnetsov, Vera Ermolaeva, Daniil Kharms, Nikolai Oleinikov, Nikolai Zabolotsky, and Alexander Vvedensky in the journals \"Chizh\" and \"Yozh\" - the same circle of the \"Marshak Academy.\" His silhouette illustrations for the present book, in black-and-gold against orange cardboard stock, deploy the graphic clarity and expressive minimalism typical of the Leningrad avant-garde children's book aesthetic. Yudin died in his very first engagement of the Great Patriotic War on the Leningrad Front, having refused a military exemption offered by the Artists' Union, which he considered a betrayal of his fellow soldiers. His works are held in the Russian Museum, Tretyakov Gallery, and the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Reserve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44367843917866,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_3261.jpg?v=1778799383","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/marshak-s-riddles-zagadki-illustrated-by-lev-yudin-1937-in-russian-unovis-avant-garde","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}