Russian avant-garde art in Japan during the Taishō era

Ose, Keishi. 尾瀨敬止.

Kakumei Roshiya no geijutsu / Ose Keishi cho = Iskusstvo v revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnoĭ Rossii

革命ロシヤの藝術 / 尾瀨敬止著 = Искусство в революционной России

(The art of revolutionary Russia)

Tokyo, 1925.

5, 322, 15 pages.

19 x 13 cm. Black original cloth with red lettering.

EUR  240

Keishi Oze (1889–1952) was a prominent Japanese expert on Soviet culture and art who played a key role as a transmitter of Russian avant-garde art in Japan during the Taishō era (1912–1926).   He was one of the first to introduce radical new art movements from revolutionary Russia, such as constructivism, to Japanese audiences.  Oze was a driving force behind important institutions such as the Nichiro Geijutsu Kyōkai (Japanese-Russian Art Association), which he co-founded in 1924 to promote direct exchange between artists from both countries.   His reports and books (such as this work) had a massive influence on young Japanese artists of the Taishō period. They contributed significantly to the emergence of the Japanese Proletarian Art Movement and other avant-garde groups.