Iskusstvo Negrov ('Negro' Art) by Vladimir Narkov, published by the Department of Fine Arts and the People's Commission for Education. Petrograd, 1919. In-4, paperback, 153pp, typographic cover by Natham Altman.
First edition, illustrated with numerous plates of reproductions of works of Fine Arts, a photographic portrait of Vladimir Markov, and some sketches by Markov.
Cover restored.
Vladimir Markov, painter and art theorist. He was one of the first theoreticians of Russian avant-garde art, notably in his treatise "La Facture" of 1914, and traveled throughout Europe to list works of African art in ethnographic museums; he is also the author of a work on the statues of Easter Island.
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