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[SOCIETE ANONYME] DREIER, KATHERINE S. and ALADJALOV, CONSTANTIN. Modern Art. [International Exhibition of Modern Art Assembled by Société Anonyme--cover title].
New York: Société Anonyme/Museum of Modern Art, 1926. Publisher's cloth-backed boards with a modernist design by Aladjalov, tabbed fore-edge as issued, housed in a handsome black clamshell case. 10 x 7 1/2 inches (25.5 x 19 cm); xii, 124 pp., illustrated throughout, with many fine spreads designed by Aladjalov. Light wear and toning to covers, small loss to the covering of the lower rear fore-corner, in all a very nice copy of this seminal publication.
The exhibition ran at the Brooklyn Museum from Friday, November 19, 1926 through Monday, January 10, 1927 (the show was held over for an additional week because of the considerable interest it created). The Société Anonyme, which organized the event, was presided over by Katherine Dreier, Wassily Kandinsky, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, and the Museum of Modern Art mentioned here is not the modern institution of that name, but that set up by Dreier and her friends, who gave this extraordinary show three years before the later Museum opened its doors (its usurpation of the name was something she resented extremely). This catalogue is a modernist document in its own right; the artist, who was Russian/Armenian by birth, had emigrated to the United States in 1923. He used what was essentially a Constructivist design vocabulary for this publication, which even today is startlingly bold.
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