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MoMA The Museum of Moder Art New York

LEfT: LIssITZKY, EL
THE MusEuM Of MODERN ART RABOCHE-KREsT’IANsKAIA KRAsNAIA ARMIIA
(WORKER-PEAsANT RED ARMY)
PREsENTs THE MOsT COMPREHENsIVE f.E. RADIONOV, ED MOsCOW: IZOGIZ 1934
EDITION: 25,000. BOOK: 200 PAGEs
ExHIBITION EVER DEVOTED TO THE LEfT AND ABOVE: LIssITZKY, EL
RussIAN AVANT-GARDE BOOK DLIA GOLOsA
(fOR THE VOICE) BY VLADIMIR MAYAKOVsKY
BERLIN: R.s.f.s.R. GOs. IZD-VO 1923
EDITION: uNKNOWN, BOOK: 61 PAGEs
RIGHT:sINAKOVA, MARIA
PRYGAIuT, IETAIuT
(THEY BOuNCE, THEY fLY) BY L. sINITsYNA
MOsCOW: MOLODAIA GVARDIIA, 1931
EDITION: 50,000. BOOK: 8 PAGEs

Exhibition Honors Recent
Gift from The Judith
Rothschild foundation, the
Largest to the Department
of Prints and Illustrated
Books since
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Established the Collection
in the 1940s

The Collection is unique in Its Breadth
and Depth and Considered Among the
Most significant of Its Kind in the
World
The Russian

Avant-Garde Book:
1910-1934

March 21 to May 21, 2002

The exhibition is organized by Deborah
Wye, Chief Curator of Prints and
Illustrated Books, The Museum of
Modern Art, and Margit Rowell, Guest
Curator

The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910-
1934 is prompted by an extraordinary
gift to MoMA of over 1,000 Russian
avant-garde illustrated books from
The Judith Rothschild foundation~
New York. The gift is the largest to the
Department of Prints and Illustrated
Books since Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

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