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Lebedev VV ABC. Leningrad, the children's department of GIZ, 1925.

 Lebedev ABC. Leningrad, GIZ, 1925. 36. with. ill. In publishing lithographic cover. 31 lithographed illustration. 24.5 cm x19 Edition 15000. One of illustrated alphabets, published in the post-revolutionary years. Included in the golden fund the printing of Russian culture! Rarity!

Bibliographic description:

1. ABC of Ivan Fedorov to modern primer. Moscow, 1974, pp. 190-191.

2. Vengerov AA and S. "Bibliohronika", Vol II, Moscow, 2006, № 126.

3.The Russian Avant-Garde book. 1910-1934. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002, № 601.

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In the history of art, there are many examples of art of a master hard to fit into the framework of a particular period. Creation of such an artist is wider, more varied in content than that of his contemporaries, the problems raised by them seriously and profoundly, the search for an art form of sharp and expressive. And often the artist breaking new ground in art, because in his work, as in a focus, concentrate the most important artistic challenges of contemporary times. These artists belong and Vladimir Lebedev (1891-1967), whose destiny is inseparable from the Russian art in the most stressful and difficult time for him. That role belongs to Lebedev "discoverer" of the new book graphics, drawings, posters and paintings. The search for a concise and expressive art form, provide an overview, very much, and gave himself Lebedev, and the artists who have been close to his creative urge. He managed to chart a path for the development of these kinds of graphics as an independent genre of art that has its own specificity and its artistic possibilities. Among the most interesting phenomena of the bygone Soviet culture - the brief but vivid flowering of children's books in the 20 - 30 years of the XX century. The tradition of colorful, elegantly decorated books for children were established in Russia is still World of Art, but the change of the political system in 1917, which led to the emergence of a new ruling ideology, inevitably led to a break-up in all areas of art. It did not pass and children's books, which became the scene of intense fighting of different directions, and schools. In hardball battle that determines what books should educate future generations of all-time in world history, government, involved scientists, educators, writers, and politicians and even punitive organs. Important role in the formation of a new model of children's books played illustrators, puts his proposed verbal material in a form consistent with the spirit of time. One of the leading artists in this field was the Leningrad B.. Lebedev. Son of a mechanic, Lebedev took to painting early, at four or five years. His other children's hobbies were football and boxing.

Energy athletic games, accompanying muscle tension and excitement of the competition later reflected in paintings and graphic works by the artist. Lebedev received education in Petersburg was in a private studio A. Titov, the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts in FA Roubaud, go to school, MD Bernstein and L. Sherwood, was a volunteer at the Academy of Fine Arts. However, a decisive influence on the young painter had a BA Grigoriev, VV Yakovlev and Shuhaev: they he tried to take over the clarity of composition, agility and precision lines. Since 1911, Lebedev started to cooperate with the children's magazine "Galcian", and then he was invited to "magazine for all", but were very successful relationship with the brilliant "Satyricon", since 1913, change the name to "New Satyricon": it saw the light of hundreds of Lebedev's pictures - from street sketches to political cartoons. Inspired by the revolutionary upheavals of the 17th year, Lebedev joined the "leftist" artists: joined the "sister" futurists "Union of Youth", participated in the Association of new trends in art. Then there were the years of teaching in Petrograd State Art and educational workshops, work in "Windows of Growth", collaboration with various publishers. It is quite clear that Lebedev, who always thought of professional problems, could not pay their hobbies, seized all the young people. Most attracted him Cubism, the most modern of the early XX century art movement, enriched the art of a new understanding of the form.

Even before the Revolution Lebedev worked in magazine graphics. His drawings featured a strong, confident skill, but he considered that the most active search for new means of expression must go to the painting. Work in oils with the highest precision can transmit a different texture, a lot of the depicted object, the ratio of the plane and space, volume and space. The first step in-depth study of the material world can be considered "vyvesochnye" Lebedev still lifes that mean the artist is much more than just a hobby naive primitivism old signs. Search for new forms in the XX century has led to a revision of the old heritage, a number of interesting finds in the art of the past. One of these "discoveries" were signs that attracted artists innocence and spontaneity, rough decorative with its unexpected color effects. "Vyvesochnye» Still Lebedev - "Still Life with a coffee pot" (1920) and "Still Life with a boot" (1920) - are different decorative, but accentuated fruitiness color is not important to them. Taking as a starting point the simplest relationships plane and volume, prompted the original sign, the artist is working on a serious plane, achieving precise spatial relationships between the various three-dimensional objects. In addition, he is interested in texture, characteristics of different surfaces to explain their physical properties - density, the stability of the tree, a cold heaviness of metal, soft tissue pliability, ease of the paper sheet. To convey a tangible good, Lebedev uses various means - and painting techniques, and labels made of paper, cardboard, wood, metal, ie, uses essentially the technique of collage. Tense textured search Lebedev kept without the influence of Vladimir Tatlin, defended the bold and largely disputed the idea of ​​a modern art. In some works, and in particular, in "Still Life with a saw" (1920), simplifying to the extreme form, an artist at the same time striving to create illusionist effect. It simulates painting walls, making labels, helping to pass volumetric hanging saws, sticks to the canvas rectangular piece of wood, which is then skillfully embellish, activating the pattern of the wood. Recruitment material in attempting to introduce foreign materials into the painting may seem that this is a far-left experiment, but this is not true.

Works executed in mixed media, for Lebedev were never only constructive search. The fact that the artist loved things, admired by their shape, texture and color. Lebedev believes that every thing a person needs is in one of his familiar world can be beautiful. The beauty of this is primarily in the feasibility of reasonable function of its construction. This effective beauty he seeks to reveal in his still lifes. In that Lebedev gets poetic view of the world with a specific, conscious perception of it. Lebedev - amazingly versatile artist. Along with the creation of a "reified" still lives, is so broad that I want to touch them with your hands, feel the touch of the surface, in the work of Lebedev traced another line that can be called cubist. It includes several paintings, called "Cubism", preparatory drawings for them and the famous series "Washerwomen." In 1923-1924 were four children's books, illustrated Lebedev, that was the beginning of a new stage in his work: soon he was offered a children's department of art editor Gosizdat in Leningrad, and, remaining in that position for the next eight years, he was active in policy-largest publisher in the field of Soviet design of children's books.

That's when Lebedev became the main illustrator and even co-wrote the most popular children's writer of the era - SY Marshak. The fruits of their joint labor - "Yesterday and Today", "Circus", "baggage", "O foolish little mouse" - are considered to be small masterpiece of children's book illustrations. Evaluating the role of Lebedev - child artist, art critic Yu Gerchuk writes: "A special, very principled system of illustrating a children's book, carried out in the twenties, Vladimir Lebedev. His work has been a clear embodiment of volitional and rational spirit of the time. He addressed not to children in general, but to the children turning age, who were to become the organizers and builders of a new, more intelligent life. Poster artist and cartoonist, artist-experimenter, Lebedev brought a children's book, active creativity. Some of the characters fall into a children's book as if from the pages of the satirical magazines or posters on the Petrograd "Window of growth." They firmly lay directly on the white paper turns without painted background color, elastic-cut silhouettes. Planar, generalized, quite conventional, the same time they were moving, alive, funny. Mysterious to the profane language of avant-garde art is in the hands of a master clear and precise, suddenly very childish. " These lines can fully be attributed to the input of the best books that Lebedev "Alphabet" in 1925. One of the first pictorial alphabets post-revolutionary period, it lacked clarity, thoughtfulness and grace. Careful selection of pictures, illustrations and masterful composition solution of each spread show exceptional talent of the artist. Unlike most of the textbooks of the time, "ABC" Lebedev emphasized apolitical: A - shark, car, L - lamp, swan, a shovel, U-train, cock feather, saw, I - an anchor, a lizard. No waving banners, torn chains pioneer tie and sickles, crossed with a hammer. In general, the book follows the artist's thoughts, said: "There is no pattern, no matter how good, will not be like a child, if he does not answer his question, it does not satisfy the educational interest." Work VV Lebedev in the field of children's books was cut abruptly and rudely. March 1, 1936 "Pravda" published an editorial with the expressive title "On-pachkunah artists." It said: "Among the medieval criminal profession is one of the darkest and most violent - is disfiguring children. Master of it called komprachikosami ... Komprachikos - terrible grimace of the Middle Ages. But is not it strange, if not wildly to meet today, in our country, the people who made the mutilation of children for his skill - of course, on paper, on paper, but in the figure. Here is a book that leafing in disgust as anatomopathological atlas. Here are all kinds of child deformities that can only be born in the imagination komprachikosa. Here and adults - freaks. And belly-nye - crippled. That's a terrible cat, causing nausea and disgust. That's even worse - carrion-stripped, everything. that remains of the horse ...

Even things, simple things, tables, chairs, trunks, lamps - they are all warped, cracked, stained, are intentionally in the same form that was disgusting to look at them and you can not use them. As if the whole book was a dark, fierce komprachikos mortally hates all natural, simple, joyful, cheerful, smart, right - all messed up, muck, all left the dirty print. And having made his bad thing, signed with pleasure: the artist's drawings Lebedev ... Nowhere formalism does not expose himself to such a degree as in the drawings of children. It is here with all the force of his act void, carrion, rotten. Some text in a children's book is reactionary because it is completely and utterly denies the entire real world of children ... Only fighting leftist ugliness will pave the way for a true and proper clearance Soviet children's books. " B.. Lebedev still find the strength to recover from this blow, he will once again illustrate children's books, including his favorite poems, SJ Marshak. But this will happen only after many years ...

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