Kuranty. Ezhemesiachnik Literatury i Iskusstva. (Chimes: A Monthly of Literature and Art). Nos. 1 - 4. (All Published)
(russian Avant-garde). Various Artists & Poets. Korneev, Boris (Ed.)
Tbilisi. 'Feniks'. Dec 1918–1919, Feb / Mar
An excellent complete set of the very scarce avant garde periodical 'Kuranty'.
The short-lived literary and artistic periodical 'Kuranty', produced in Tbilisi during the Russian Civil War, features contributions from many of the most important Russian and Georgian avant garde figures of the time: Alexei Kruchenykh and Igor Terent'ev contributed a large body of material, but the contributions of Kyril Zdanevich, the editor Boris Korneev, Nikolai Sudeikin, Tatiana Vechorka, Rafalovich and others cannot be overlooked. Natalia Goncharova's 'Portrait of A. Kruchenykh' is reproduced in the final issue together with portraits by Kruchenykh himself.
This Tbilisi-produced 'Kuranty' is not to be confused with the review 'Kuranty' published in Kiev in the same year and also of considerable rarity.
'Kuranty' is extremely scarce and we can locate no complete sets in libraries although a facsimile is held and Johns Hopkins holds a copy of issue 1; auction records feature one complete copy only, that sold at Christie's in 2014 as well asone other incomplete set (also Christie's in 2007).
The short-lived literary and artistic periodical 'Kuranty', produced in Tbilisi during the Russian Civil War, features contributions from many of the most important Russian and Georgian avant garde figures of the time: Alexei Kruchenykh and Igor Terent'ev contributed a large body of material, but the contributions of Kyril Zdanevich, the editor Boris Korneev, Nikolai Sudeikin, Tatiana Vechorka, Rafalovich and others cannot be overlooked. Natalia Goncharova's 'Portrait of A. Kruchenykh' is reproduced in the final issue together with portraits by Kruchenykh himself.
This Tbilisi-produced 'Kuranty' is not to be confused with the review 'Kuranty' published in Kiev in the same year and also of considerable rarity.
'Kuranty' is extremely scarce and we can locate no complete sets in libraries although a facsimile is held and Johns Hopkins holds a copy of issue 1; auction records feature one complete copy only, that sold at Christie's in 2014 as well asone other incomplete set (also Christie's in 2007).
pp. 24; 26, (i); 29, (ii). 4 issues in 3. 4to. (c.220 x 190 mm). Printed text and verse in Russian throughout, no. 1 with 3 mounted monochrome zincograph illustrations by A. N. Geevski, no. 2 with monochrome illustrations by Terent'ev and P. Iashvili, issue 3 with monochrome illustrations by Goncharova and Kruchenykh. Stapled as issued in original publisher's printed paper wrappers with titles to front covers in black (issue no. 2 in red and black, issues 2 and 3 /4 with publisher's vignettes), issue 1 with advertisements to rear cover; repair to spine of issue 1, front cover of issue 2 detached.
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