Drawings Pimenov Gatilova, Kohout, Zeitlin, Kozlinsky, Zhytomyr and other illustrators magazine "Growth", published in 1930-1934 years

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Gallery "Ark" , January 23 - March 9, 2014
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Gallery " Ark" opened the exhibition " Artists of the journal " Growth " ." Magazine "Growth " published in Moscow from 1930 to 1934 . At first, it covers made ​​, usually in the art of photographic collage , next to the name and sported abbreviation : RAPP . As he wrote in 1931, the executive secretary of RAPP Leopold Auerbach , " Our massive body" growth "must be a new type of RAPP magazine. His task - to promote and fight for RAPP installation queries cultural revolution , introducing the broadest circles of proletarian writers with proletarian literature, nominate and educate new cadres ».

arose in the mid-1920s and liquidated in April 1932, the Russian Association of Proletarian writers (RAPP ) went down in history as ideologically purposeful association, which sought to "help win the leading role of the proletariat at the front of the cultural and literary construction." But pretty soon , the participants have received accusations of " factionalism , sectarianism and cell separation , an exaggerated idea of ​​their role " and even " the substitution of the party line in the literature the term" general line RAPP . " However, the organizers of the exhibition does not aim to understand the intricacies of literary and political life of the first half of 1930 - and do it in passing, as part of the exhibition project , impossible. Suffice it to recall that the writer Vladimir Kirshon (author who became widely known in our days the poem " I asked Ash ..."), took an active part in the editorial "Growth" in the position of managing editor , once had a hand in the persecution of Mikhail Bulgakov himself accused of Trotskyism turned and shot in 1938. "We tried in our magazine - wrote Kirshon about working in " Growth "- all the time to combine the material for working-class reader , give him literary collections, highlight issues of Radio, Film , acquaint with dramatic works . It should be noted that we have found ways of working , which in our magazine first used, for example : film rally , rally radio , chefs roll with patronage , review work Osoaviahima ... "Growth " should as much as a popular form of cultural work to introduce the reader to the literature, art, should put cultural and domestic issues ».

in the" growth " in addition to" creative writer's young "( the title of one of the journal collections ) , published in different years Yuri Libedinsky Alexander Fadeev, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, Andrei Platonov, Demian poor , Alexander Afinogenov , Maxim Gorky , Veniamin Kaverin Marietta Shahinian , Boris Shergin , Alexei Novikov , Surf and many other authors . Not less representative was iconic series : despite the presence of a laconic color only on its cover , " Height " was extensively illustrated magazine . Dozens of artists have worked for this edition , making Way and Half-band illustration, tie-in text and drawing the headlines. Among the regular illustrators "Growth » - Yuri , Peter Karachentsov Nicholas Gatilov , Nicholas Kohout , Nahum Zeitlin , Kozlinsky , Alexander Zhytomyr ... The uniqueness of the exposed first private collection ( its holder preferred to remain anonymous to a wide audience ) - in the fullness of graphic collections, consisting of drawings made by these and other authors for the magazine "Growth " in the years 1930-1934 .

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