Soviet Decorative Art: Materials and Documents, 1917-1932. Porcelain, Faience, Glass / compiled by I. A. Pronina, 1980. In Russian.

Советское декоративное искусство. Материалы и документы. 1917-1932. Фарфор, фаянс, стекло / авторы-составители И. А. Пронина, М. В. Владимирцева, Л. В. Казакова, И. М. Суслов ; Академия художеств СССР, НИИ теории и истории изобразительных искусств, Центральный государственный архив народного хозяйства СССР ; общая редакция В. П. Толстого ; редколлегия: В. П. Толстой (гл. редактор), И. А. Пронина, И. В. Рязанцев, Н. С. Степанян, И. М. Суслов, С. М. Темерин, Н. М. Хвостенкова ; художник Г. М. Берштейн.
Москва : Искусство, 1980. 340 с., ил. ; 26,5×18,5 см.
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Soviet Decorative Art: Materials and Documents, 1917-1932. Porcelain, Faience, Glass / compiled by I. A. Pronina, M. V. Vladimirtseva, L. V. Kazakova, and I. M. Suslov, on behalf of the USSR Academy of Arts, the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts, and the Central State Archive of the National Economy of the USSR ; general editorship of V. P. Tolstoy ; editorial board: V. P. Tolstoy (editor-in-chief), I. A. Pronina, I. V. Ryazantsev, N. S. Stepanyan, I. M. Suslov, S. M. Temerin, and N. M. Khvostenkova ; artist G. M. Bershtein.
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1980. 340 pp., illustrated ; 26.5 × 18.5 cm.
Publisher's binding with illustrated dust jacket. Print run of 10,000 copies. Cover price 3 rubles 20 kopecks.
Boards good: dust jacket worn, with creasing along the folds and small tears and losses at the edges.
Text block good: clean and complete; an owner's stamp on the title-page.

This substantial documentary sourcebook, the porcelain-faience-glass volume in the Iskusstvo publishing house's series "Soviet Decorative Art: Materials and Documents," assembles primary-source material charting the history of the Soviet decorative ceramics and glass industry from the Revolution through the first Five-Year Plan. Issued jointly by the USSR Academy of Arts, its Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts, and the Central State Archive of the National Economy of the USSR, and compiled under the general editorship of Vladimir Tolstoy, a leading Soviet historian of decorative and monumental art, the volume reproduces government decrees on the nationalized porcelain and glass trusts, competition and exhibition regulations, factory reports, period journal and newspaper articles, and theoretical writings by artists and critics. Its color plates document the celebrated "agitational porcelain" produced at the former Imperial Porcelain Factory in Petrograd/Leningrad immediately after the Revolution, reproducing major works by Sergei Chekhonin, including his 1921 famine-relief plate and his revolutionary-slogan services of 1919-1920, alongside pieces associated with the Suprematist circle around Malevich, Suetin, and Chashnik that briefly transformed the factory's output in the early 1920s. A substantial scholarly apparatus follows the main text: a glossary of specialized ceramic and glass terminology, a bibliography, a list of the documents reproduced, and, of particular practical value to collectors and dealers, a plate section reproducing the factory trademarks used at Dulevo, Tver, Volkhov, and other major Soviet porcelain and glass works between 1918 and 1932, together with a name index covering several hundred artists, technologists, and officials of the period. Long out of print and regularly cited in the specialist literature on Soviet agitational porcelain, the volume remains an essential reference for the identification, dating, and provenance research of early Soviet decorative ceramics and glass.