Russian Avant-Garde: The Khardzhiev Collection: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam by Imanse, Geurt, ed.; van Lamoen, Frank, ed - 2013

Rotterdam, the Netherlands: nai010 publishers, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean flexible hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Profusely illustrated in full-color. Massively heavy, oversized catalogue published to accompany the survey exhibition, 'Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde: Featuring Selections from the Khardzhiev and Costakis Collections' held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 19 October 2013 - 2 February 2014. This volume features the work of 60+ Russian avant-garde artists and 10 non-Russian artists including concise but detailed artist biographies for each artist in the collection. Essays by Elena Basner, Michael Meylac, Theo Bremer, William Weststeijn, and Sergei Sigey. Contains extensive scholarly apparatus in the form of Works Cited, Index of Names, Acknowledgements, and Abbreviations. 552 pp. From the back cover: "With more than 700 works on paper, including gouaches, watercolors, cover designs for Futurist books, sketches, and studies, [this book] provides the first virtually complete survey of Khardzhiev's exceptional art collection." Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.