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Rare, Out-of-print, Antiquarian & Modern Books
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We buy books in our subjects - important single items and collections. Contact us.
The World's Languages
Ancient & Modern |
The Russian Avant Garde
A slap in the face of public taste! |
The Balkans, East Central Europe,
Russia and Central Asia |
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| We specialise in books on language; dictionaries, grammars, courses, phrase-books, linguistics and general philology. We deal in all languages but particularly love the Slavonic and lesser-spoken ones - English slang and dialect, pidgins and creoles, Celtica, Uralic and Altaic groups, the Classics and all Ancient languages. |
"The Russian Avant-Garde" is a broad term encompassing a variety of artistic movements prevalent in Imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union from around the beginning of the Twentieth Century until the late 1930s. "World of Art" (Mir Iskusstvo), Futurism and Constructivism are perhaps the best know genres, but many other groups were formed and reformed. An entire programme in the recent TV series on the history of Russian Art was devoted to these movements.
Recently, Marijana Dworski Books had the good fortune to purchase a library of books and pamphlets selected for their visual impact and exciting graphic design. Many of these are of great importance in the history of design. All can be categorised as Avant-Garde. Those that we offer here reflect the range of these exciting ventures in graphic art, book cover design, photography and film. With works by Mayakovsky, Dmitri Moor, Khlebnikov, Favorsky, Lentulov and including the Filonov School's celebrated Kalevala.
Poster advertising our recent exhibition at the Hay Festival 2010
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Russian Avant-Garde Books
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We also specialise in rare and out-of-print books on the lost Empires of Europe and Asia and their successors, from Byzantium and the Ottomans, through Austria-Hungary and the Russia of the Tsars and commissars to the Central Asia of Mongolia, Siberia, the 'Stans' and the Great Game. Travel-writing, Baedekers and Murrays and other good guide books are part of our stock. |
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Sweet Disorder in the Balkans
Costume and Textile Collection
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Books as Art
See: www.books4looks.co.uk
Marijana Dworski and Clare Keil celebrate the graphic design of the mid-twentieth century - decorative books to display on your wall. From the Avant Garde to the Festival of Britain, Penguins and Faber. Strong colours, great graphics in custom made frames.
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