Tairoff (Kornfeld), Alexander. Das Entfesselte Theater. Aufzeichnungen eines Regisseurs [“Theatre Unbound. Notes of a Director.”]

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Lot 241

(LISSITZKY, EL).

Tairoff (Kornfeld), Alexander. Das Entfesselte Theater. Aufzeichnungen eines Regisseurs [“Theatre Unbound. Notes of a Director.”]

FIRST EDITION. Cover design by El Lissitzky. Frontispiece portrait of Author. Numerous plates. pp. (8), 112. Trace foxed. Original pictorial boards, rubbed. 4to

Berlin: Feyl 1923

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

Alexander Tairov (Kornfeld) was the Director of the Moscow Chamber Theater. In 1914 he introduced abstract geometric forms by painters Alexander Exter and Giorgi Yakulov, and by architect Alexander Vesnin. See R. Apter-Gabriel, Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928 (1987), pp. 126, 140. Also see Busch-Reisinger Museum Catalogue, El Lissitzky (1987) no. 1923/5; Museum of Modern Art Catalogue, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934 (2002) no. 477, p. 197.