Theatre in Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde Stage Design, 1913-1935

New York / San Francisco: Thames and Hudson / The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992. Softcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond light crimp to front first few pages. Contributions by the editor, Nancy Van Norman Baer, and then by John E. Bowlt, Mel Gordon, Valerii Gubin, Simon Karlinsky, Mikhail Kolesnikov, Georgii Kovalenko, Nicoletta Misler, Steven A. Nash and Elizabeth Souritz. 207 pp., and here are the contents: Harry S. Parker III provides the Preface, and the editor, the Acknowledgments, and then Valerii Gubin, "Introduction to Alexei Bakrushin and his theatrical museum"; "The early twentieth-Century Cultural Revival and the Russian merchant class" by Simon Karlinsky; "Design and movement in the theatre of the Russian avant-garde," by Nancy Van Norman Baer; "The construction of caprice: the Russian avant-garde onstage," by John E. Bowlt; "The Russian avant-garde and the theatre of the artist," by Mikhail Kolesnikov; "East meets west: Russian stage design and the European avant-garde," by Steven A. Nash; "Russian eccentric theatre: the rhythm of America on the early Soviet stage," by Mel Gordon; "Constructivism and dance," by Elizabeth Souritz; "The constructivist stage," by Georgii Kovalenko; "Designing gestures in the laboratory of dance," by Nicoletta Misler; and then sections devoted to "Manifestos of the Russian avant-garde," Slected plot summaries, an Exhibition Checklist, and then a full Index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.