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«Book Graphics 1920-1930-ies" at the Museum of Russian Literature XX-XXI century

Literary Museum and Gallery "Vellum" opening exhibition of the Soviet book illustrations 1920-1930-ies. It represented the work of three artists: Mark Axelrod, Mendel Gorshman and Euphrosyne Ermilova Platov. Axelrod and Gorshman stand together no coincidence: both VKhUTEMAS students, pupils, Vladimir Favorskogo subsequently taught themselves (Axelrod - in Moscow, Gorshman - in St. Petersburg), both have written extensively on Jewish topics, cooperated with Soviet Jewish journals, made friends with the poets who have written on Yiddish. Both of them were not really recognized as artists, but it is in demand as a book charts. The exhibition includes illustrations to works of Axelrod Sholom Aleichem and Gorshman - the novel "Three years" of Soviet-Jewish writer Ihila Shraibman. Never previously exhibited drawings Ermilova-Platova 1920 - as if the application to the exhibition, it is not book illustrations, but they are also the most interesting part of it. If Axelrod and Gorshman - authors quite decent, but not too remarkable, then Ermilova-Platov - one of those rare artists who quietly swept through the Soviet spirit of the Russian avant-garde. It is not that rebellious, but always polupriznannaya, it has a powerful internal autonomy, with 1920's 1970's artist carelessly changing styles, in general, not inventing anything, but did not look just a student. It is equally possible to thoughtful analyticity and primitivist freedom.
"Kommersant Weekend" № 10 (156) on 19.03.2010