400 let russkoi pechatnoi knigi (400 Years of the Russian Printed Book) Artist: Ēduard Artsrunian (Armenian, 1929–2010)
Printer: Kalinskii poligrafkombinat Glavpoligrafproma (Kalinin, active 20th century)
Publisher: Izdatel'stvo "Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo"

1963

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Color offset lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 34 1/4 × 22 13/16 in. (87 × 58 cm)

Credit Line

The Allan Chasanoff, B.A. 1961, Russian Poster Collection, curated with Kevin Begos

Accession Number

2018.136.326

Geography

Made in Tver', Soviet Union

Culture

Soviet, Tver

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Allan Chasanoff Collection, New York, to 2018; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Object/Work type

didactic art, lithographs, political art, posters, propaganda

Subject

books communism monuments statues

Inscriptions

The book is possibly the most complex and greatest miracle of all the miracles created by humanity on its path to happiness and the power of the future. M. Gorky \r\nstatue: First Printer Ivan Fedorov\r\nbook cover: Program of the CPSU\r\nLL: artist: E. Artsrunyan \r\nLC: State Publisher of Visual Arts (IZOGIZ), Moscow, 1963\r\nLR: RSFSR, Economic Council of the Moscow Economic Region\r\n[printing press]

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