Teatr Revoliutsii

I was recently lucky to see (with Huw and Mike) the exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World 1914—1939 at the Corcoran in Washington DC. One part of the exhibition that I particularly enjoyed was the graphic design of the Russian modernists, and in particular the work of El Lissitzky, who I knew from his many designs for the books of Vladimir Mayakovsky. So I was very happy to find, via Three Percent, that the New York Public Library has a wonderful collection of 656 Russian book jackets from the period 1917-1942 available online. The following are some of my favourites, though they are uniformly interesting (click covers for details).