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Kharik, Izi. [Cover Design by Nathan Altman] : AF DER ERD

Moscow, Farlag "shul Un Buch", 1926

1st edition. Period boards with original illustrated covers mounted on front and back, 8vo, 112 pages. With distinctive constructivist soviet cover design by Nathan Altman. The book's cover is prominently featured in "Book Design of the Kultur Lige Artists (Kiev, 2011, p. 41) Yiddish. Title translates as, "On The Land. " Af der Erd, "Kharik's first major poetry collection expressing the tensions between tradition and modernity and revolution and memory was published in 1926 when he returned to Minsk after his time in Moscow Izi Kharik, a great Yiddish literary figure and victim of Stalin, [and] In his short life, Kharik became one of the most significant Yiddish poets of his day. Kharik was at a literary pinnacle when he was arrested in the 1937 purge and executed in the forest outside Minsk" (yiddishkayt.org, 2017) . Nathan Isaevich Altman (1889 1970) was a "Jewish, Russian and Soviet avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator. In 1910, he went to Paris, where he stayed for one year. He studied at the Free Russian Academy in Paris, working in the studio of Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, and had contact with Marc Chagall, Alexander Archipenko, and David Shterenberg. In 1910, he became a member of the group Soyuz Molodyozhi (Union of Youth) . In 1918, he was the member of the Board for Artistic Matters within the Department of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment together with Malevich, Baranoff-Rossine and Shevchenko. In the same year he had an exhibition with the group Jewish Society for the Furthering of the Arts in Moscow, together with Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, El Lissitzky and the others. In 1920, he became a member of the Institute for Artistic Culture (INKHUK) , together with Kasimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin and the others. In the same year, he participated in the exhibition From Impressionism to Cubism in the Museum of Painterly Culture in Petrograd. (now Saint Petersburg) . In 1921, he moved to Moscow. From 1921 to 1922 he was director of the Museum of Painterly Culture in Petrograd.From 1920 to 1928, he worked on stage designs for the Habimah Theatre and the Jewish State Theatre in Moscow. In 1923 a volume of his Jewish graphic art, Evrejskaja grafika Natana Al'tmana: Tekst Maksa Osborna [Max Osborn], was published in Berlin. In 1925, he participated in Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes (Art Deco) in Paris together with Aleksandra Ekster, Vadim Meller, Rudolf Frentz, Sonia Delaunay-Terk and David Shterenberg. His first solo exhibition in Leningrad was in 1926, " the year of this publication (Wikipedia, 2017) . SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish poetry. Lower half of title page replaced. Outer margin of book, including cover, has been trimmed-in, resulting in the loss of 2 letters in the authors name in the cover design. Boards rubbed, but design, as well as graphic elements on the rear cover, remain clear and sharp. Good Condition Thus. (yid-26-24)

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