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Exhibition catalog for "Soviet & Subversive"

Books


AAR.EC.0096
15 p. ; ill. ; 49 cm
1994
Brian Hannon
Catalog for "Soviet & Subversive" an exhibition of books from Russia on view at Center for Book Arts, New York from October 28- December 15, 1994. Includes an introduction written by Executive Director Brian Hannon, images, and descriptions of the works. CBA has two copies.

This exhibition juxtaposes the commercially-printed and bound books sanctioned by the Soviet government (usually portraying an ideal Soviet life) with secretly handmade books and pamphlets of artists which reveal how people actually lived and coped with the oppression of the Communist era.

Featured artists: Victor Bogorad, Lucien Dulfan, Renat Gazezov, Igor Kopelnitsky, Raimonda Kopelnitsky, Mikhail Kuzmin, Mikhail Magaril, Vladimir Viderman, Mikhail Zlatkovsky.