Vystavka Iaponskoe Kino. [Exhibition of Japanese Cinema].24 pp.Illustrated with photographs throughout.Oblong 8vo., 145 x 210 mm, bound in publisher’s photographically illustrated wrappers.In a new cloth box.Moscow:All-Union Society for Cultural Relations Abroad, 1929.
First Edition.A rare exhibition catalogue designed by Lissitzky to accompany the Exhibition of Japanese Cinema that took place in Leningrad and Moscow in the summer of 1929.The event represented an important cross-cultural exchange as the Soviets believed the Japanese film aesthetic could help them create films that could resist western influences.
Rare at auction with Rare Book Hub turning up just one copy in 2008.OCLC finds 4 copies in the US, NYPL, Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin, Getty, and notably not found in the MOMA collection. Some edge wear and a half centimeter tear to the top margin of the text, overall a very good copy.
