Original UNUSED Dust Jacket Maksim Gorky Modernism NOLIT Photo editing 1940 Original UNUSED Dust Jacket Maksim Gorky Modernism NOLIT Photo editing 1940
ORIGINAL UNUSED DUST JACKETThis is one of the earliest appearance of photo editing and photo montage in designing dust jacket!!! from 1940 First Serbian edition of Maksim Gorky’s My Childhood.
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Maksim Gorki Detinjstvo
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Published by NOLIT publishing house (founded by Oto Bihalji Merin and Pavle Bihalji). Edition series Dela Maksima Gorkog (Works of Maxim Gorky). Belgrade [1940]. (Beograd [1940]).
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Provenance: From the estate of Pavle Bihaly, author of dust jacket and editor of whole Nolit edition, and co-founder of Nolit publishing house, together with his brother, Oto Bihaly (Bihalji).
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** This is one of the earliest appearance of photo editing and photo montage in designing dust jacket!!!Oto Bihalji – Merin (1904 – 1993) was Serbian and Yugoslav painter, publisher, art historian, writer and art critic from Belgrade. Oto Bihalji studied painting in Germany where he embraced left oriented ideas. In 1928 he came back to Belgrade and with his brother Pavle Bihalji founded the Nova literature (New literature) magazine and Nolit publishing house which had been publishing titles from the authors such as Jack London, Maxim Gorky, Remarque, Heinrich Mann, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, Isaak Babel etc. which authorities considered provocatively left oriented and thus had been forbidding them. Few years later he went back to Germany again where he made friends and cooperated with some of Europe’s leading intellectuals and artists of the period: Bertolt Brecht, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Andre Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre, Maksim Gorky, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Pablo Picasso and many others. Together they confronted fascism and Nazism in Italy and Germany
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Size (unfolded): 50, 1 x 23, 4 cm. Dust jacket lays on cardboard, wrapped in plastic foil. In this way it has been photographed.
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For condition and details see scans.
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