{"product_id":"russian-avant-garde-film-posters-book-taschen","title":"Russian Avant-Garde Film Posters Book: Soviet Design, Typography \u0026 Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Soviet Realism became official art doctrine, there was a short window when film posters in the USSR were some of the most radical graphic design on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFilm Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde\u003c\/strong\u003e collects \u003cstrong\u003e250 film posters from the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s\u003c\/strong\u003e, revealing a surprising world of innovative aesthetics. These designs show the \u003cstrong\u003eexperimental avant-garde of the early USSR\u003c\/strong\u003e at full strength, in the years before that freedom was closed down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe visual language is unmistakable: \u003cstrong\u003ebold colors\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003edramatic angles\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eeye-catching typography\u003c\/strong\u003e. Faces are cropped and enlarged until they fill the sheet, figures tilt across diagonals, photographs collide with flat color, and lettering becomes architecture. The posters had to sell films on the street, so they had to stop people in their tracks, and they still do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of this work grew out of Constructivism and the montage thinking of Soviet cinema itself. Designers borrowed the camera's tools, close-ups, extreme angles, cuts, and repetition, and translated them into print. Cinema of the period was experimenting with how images could be edited to create meaning, and the posters were doing the same thing on paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe influence runs straight through the century: into modernist graphic design, punk and post-punk record sleeves, protest posters, and a long line of contemporary campaigns that reach for the same energy. If you have ever set type on a diagonal or slammed a cropped face against a block of red, you are working in this tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vandal.la\/collections\/signals\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSignals\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, this one is pure reference fuel: 250 lessons in composition, color, and type that never stop paying off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy Russian avant-garde poster design still matters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRussian avant-garde poster design\u003c\/strong\u003e still matters because it showed how far graphic communication could be pushed when designers treated type, photography, and color as raw material. Its angles, crops, and contrasts remain a core part of the visual vocabulary of designers, art directors, and filmmakers today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho this book is for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor graphic designers, poster designers, typographers, art directors, illustrators, and filmmakers. For the RIOT and vandal_ crowd who build bold visual systems and want to see where so many of the moves came from, and for anyone who loves cinema history told through its graphics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSubject:\u003c\/strong\u003e Soviet film posters of the 1920s and early 1930s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e TASCHEN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 45th Ed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/strong\u003e German, French, English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInside:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250 film posters from the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCategory:\u003c\/strong\u003e Film and graphic design, print book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFAQ\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow many posters are in the book?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book shows 250 film posters from the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat period does it cover?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe experimental avant-garde of the early USSR, before Soviet Realism became official art doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat languages is it in?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition is in German, French, and English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TASCHEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":69745051271202,"sku":"9783754405543","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/1600\/8738\/files\/2ddab1ee513e711d50285057c74ad62a.png?v=1794380528","url":"https:\/\/vandal.la\/products\/russian-avant-garde-film-posters-book-taschen","provider":"vandal_","version":"1.0","type":"link"}