Georgia from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books

Octavo 15x10.5 cm., illustrated wrappers, 64pp., 1500 copies. Beno Gordeziani (1894-1975) was an artist, editor, and author of many works on Georgian art history. He was one of the founders of the Futurist H2SO4 group, along with Imrakli Gamrekeli and Nikoloz Ch'ach'ava . This is an early monograph on Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918), an impoverished primitivist painter who became an inspiration… Read more about this item

The first book of Georgian Dada, by Grigol Tsetskhladze (1894-1976), who introduced dada literature in the Georgian language.. Cover design by Imrakli Gamrekeli, the foremost modernist and graphic designer of the Georgian avant-garde. These are his first poetic statements employing dadaist elements. Soon Tsetskhladze would become a spokesman for Synthetism, forswearing Futurism, Symbolism and other modernist movements as obsolete… Read more about this item

Quarto 25.5 x 20.5 cm., wrappers, 57(6) pp., 16 sheets with reproductions. Kakabadze cover design, typography by I. Karseladze. No. 452 of 500 (complete series 510) numbered copies on Outhenin Chalandre fils machine-made laid paper (ten copies printed on Japan). The first publication devoted exclusively to Kakabadze and the in Georgian language. while he resided and worked in Paris.. David… Read more about this item

Octavo 17.2x13.2 cm., wrappers, 36 pp., edition of 2000 copies. Cover design by G. Chikhladze. Daisali (Ivane Sergos vua Babuadze, 1901-1937) was a Georgian nationalist poet who was the founder and leader of the Somnambulist group of modernist poets during the years of Georgian independence (1917-1922). Sometime after the Soviets assumed control of Georgia, the group was seen as… Read more about this item