Russian Film Posters (1900-1930)
330 x 250 mm (9¾ x 13 in)
200 pages with 161 illustrations
English | Spanish | French | German
Hardback with jacket
ISBN 978-1-908126-15-3
Available
£19.95 €24.95 US$35.00
This volume, based on rarely seen Russian archives, traces the history of the silent film poster in Russia, starting with a poster designed by Paul Assaturov ("Stenka Razin", 1908) in the style of ancient naive Russian imagery to the latest, an advertisement for a silent movie by Yuri Pimenov from 1934. Full-page reproductions of 161 Russian silent film posters are presented here in chronological order.
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Review by: The Russian Fashion Blog
"In the early 20th century a staggering 60 percent of Russian population was illiterate. Yet they were exactly the crowd that went to the cinema as it was regarded as lowly kind of entertainment that the upper classes despised. No wonder both cinema and posters were picked up as tools of Soviet propaganda..." read more