Krasnai︠a︡ niva
Красная нива (Krasnai︠a︡ niva) was a literary, artistic, and socio-political illustrated supplement to the Russian daily newspaper Izvestia. Izvestia was founded in 1917 and is still being published. It expressed the political and social views of the Soviet government before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Aleksandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution by Call Number: B.K812 FISBN: 0804710732Publication Date: 1980
The Communist Manifesto by
Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom. (via Google Books)
Call Number: HX39.5 .A5213 2012ISBN: 9780300123029Publication Date: 2012
Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina by Call Number: Q. 779.0947 T839gISBN: 9783882439748Publication Date: 2004
Lenin: A Biography by
Lenin’s politics continue to reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence, yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This biography shows us Lenin as we have never seen him, in his full complexity as revolutionary, political leader, thinker, and private person. (via Harvard University Press)
Call Number: DK254.L4 S4323 2000ISBN: 0674003306Publication Date: 2000
The Look of Russian Literature by
Gerald Janecek describes the experiments in visual, literature conducted from 1900 to 1930, the heyday of the Russian Avant Garde. Focusing on an aspect of Russian literary history that has previously been almost ignored, he shows how Russian writers of this period tried unusual methods to make their texts visually interesting or expressive. The book includes 183 illustrations, most from rare publications and many reproduced for the first time. The author discusses such figures as the Symbolist Andrey Bely, the Futurists Aleksey Kruchonykh, Vasili Kamensky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the post-Futurist Ilya Zdanevich, and their use of devices ranging from unorthodox layouts and florid typography to roughly done lithographed or handmade books. (via Princeton University Press)
Call Number: 891.709 J253LISBN: 0691066043Publication Date: 1984
Newspaper Design by
Newspaper Design showcases the best of editorial and graphic design from the most renowned newspapers across the world, and proves that skillful news design matters more than ever before. (via Gestalten)
Call Number: Q. 686.2252 N47ISBN: 9783899555363Publication Date: 2018
The Russian Avant-Garde Book by
Russian avant-garde books made between 1910 and 1934 reflect a vivid and tumultuous period in that nation's history that had ramifications for art, society, and politics. The early books, with their variously sized pages of coarse paper, illustrations entwined with printed, hand-written, and stamped texts, and provocative covers, were intended to shock academic conventions and bourgeois sensibilities. After the 1917 Revolution, books appeared with optimistic designs and photomontage meant to reach the masses and symbolize a rational, machine-led future. Later books showcased modern Soviet architecture and industry in the service of the government's agenda. This publication accompanied an exhibition of Russian avant-garde books at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (via Google Books)
Call Number: Q. 002.0947 R795rISBN: 0870700073Publication Date: 2002
Soviet Salvage: Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism by
In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life. (via Penn State University Press)
Call Number: 709.4709042 W179sISBN: 9780271077697Publication Date: 2017
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students by
Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. Historical and contemporary examples of graphic design show how to learn the rules and how to break them. Critical essays, eye-opening diagrams, helpful exercises, and dozens of examples and illustrations show readers how to be inventive within systems that inform and communicate. (via Princeton Architectural Press)
Call Number: 686.22 L974t2010ISBN: 9781568989693Publication Date: 2010-11-03
