Auction 99 Part 1 Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection
"Soviet Theater", Illustrated Magazine on Theater – Collection of Issues – Moscow, 1930-1932
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Советский театр, Общественно-политический журнал, по вопросам театра и марксистского театроведения [Soviet Theater, Socio-political magazine on theater and Marxist theater studies], edited by Alexander Afinogenov (Александр Николаевич Афиногенов). Moscow: Various publishers, 1930-1932. Russian.
Twenty-six issues (some double issues):
• 12 issues from the first year, 1930 (issue nos. 1-4, 7, 9-16. Identical copies of issue nos. 1, 3-4 and 11-12);
• 8 issues from the second year, 1931 (issue nos. 2-6, 9-11);
• 6 issues from the third year, 1932 (issue nos. 1-2, 5, 7-8, 9).
The issues include theoretical discussions on Marxist theater, reviews of plays, overviews of the theater world in Russia and abroad, research articles and more. The issues are accompanied by numerous pictures and designed by various artists, including several covers designed by
Gustav Klutsis (Густав Клуцис) and
Dmitry Moor (Дмитрий Моор).
20 booklets. Size and condition vary.
Illustrated Booklets, Leaflets and Periodicals (Architecture, Cinema, Theater and Politics)
Illustrated Booklets, Leaflets and Periodicals (Architecture, Cinema, Theater and Politics)