Striking cover drawn by Diego Riviera – and extensive, fascinating content
Publication: Time Inc., New York, 1932.
A superb cover for a richly illustrated and interesting content: the Fortune Magazine issue focusing on the ‘Soviet miracle’.
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Fine copy of this uncommon issue devoted to the USSR, to ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’, aiming at detailing for the American public still suffering from the 1929 crisis all aspects of Stalinist USSR in the early 1930s. Richly illustrated, the account is wide-ranging, lively and slightly ironic from time to time – of great interest for those interested in the Western view of the USSR at that time. Interestingly, while it reports on Communist USSR, the very capitalist magazine is filled with numerous American advertisements triggering consumption – a sharp contrast!
With a striking front cover by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo’s husband and well-known Communist fresco painter.
Item number
699
Folio (35.3 x 29 cm). 148 pp. with many illustrations, some in colour.
Binding
Original wrappers printed in colour after Riviera.
Condition
Slightly rubbed to extremities, lower cover stained, the minor odd spot and a light vertical crease to centre, otherwise in appealing, fresh condition, with the cover particularly bright.
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SORINE, Savely [Savelii Abramovich SORIN] (artist) and André SALMON
Portraits
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