Title & Author:

Red star over Russia : a revolution in visual culture 1905-55 / edited by Matthew Gale and Natalia Sidlina ; with contributions by Dina Akhmadeeva.

Publication:

London : Tate Publishing, 2017.
©2017

Description:

96 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
"A celebration of the David King collection."-- title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- David King, collector -- The old regime -- 1905: the first revolution -- The first world war -- 1917: February to October -- The leader -- The fallen leader -- Emancipated woman -- Monumental propaganda -- Montaged history -- Civil war posters -- Agitprop -- The republics -- Building the USSR -- The left front of the arts -- The Vkhutemas connection -- Lenin's mausoleum -- 1925: view from Paris -- 'Pressa' international -- Industrialisation -- USSR in construction -- Ten years of Uzbekistan -- Gustav Klutsis -- Klutsis and Kulagina -- 1937: view from Paris -- Moscow trials -- The commissar vanishes -- 1939: view from New York -- The commissar vanishes -- The great patriotic war -- Nina Vatolina: women at war -- The war poster -- Documents in the war -- Tass windows -- The leader vanishes -- The new generation -- Notes and credits.

Summary:

In exploring the intersection of art, politics and society, few collections in the world can compare with the David King collection. David King (1943-2016) was not only a passionate collector, but also an artist, designer and historian. Over a lifetime he amassed one of the world's largest collections of Soviet political art and photographs. Every step of the Soviet journey is documented in visual media, photomontage, photographs, paintings, handwritten notes, books (signed with annotations and marginalia), enclosures and ephemera. The collection is also unique in examples of image manipulation techniques, erasures and deletions, and in the survival, despite the purges, of extremely rare books and manuscripts by the early revolutionaries who died in the Show Trials of 1936-38. Exhibition: Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (08.11.2017 - 18.02.2018).

ISBN:

9781849765237 (paperback)
1849765235 (paperback)

Subject:

King, David, 1943- Art collections Exhibitions.
King, David, 1943- Collections d'art Expositions.
King, David, 1943-
20.11 art collecting.
URSS Histoire 1925-1953 Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
URSS Dans l'art Expositions.
Art Private collections
Soviet Union History 1917-1936 Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Soviet Union In art Exhibitions.
URSS Histoire 1917-1936 Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Soviet Union

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
History

Added entries:

Sidlina, Natalia, editor.
Gale, Matthew, editor.
Tate Modern (Gallery), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325504
Call No.: 325504
Copy: 1
Status: Available