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Russia, during the Revolution and in the decade that followed, saw experiments and achievements in the graphic arts that were as exciting and seminal as the parallel developments in painting and literature. Szymon Bojko, a leading Polish writer on the arts who has had regular access to archives in Moscow and who introduces illustrations of material in some cases never before seen in the West, draws together the threads in a most timely and revealing survey. In this book, "New Graphic Design in Revolutionary Russia"the author traces the traditional influence of Russian folk art, as well as the impetus gained from Futurist poetry and Cubist art, from Dada, Constructivism, and Suprematism. This book reveals the incredible explosion of artistic theory and talent that accompanied, and was available to serve, the Revolution.