P'arizi 1920-1923 clebi: (Paris. The Years 1920-1923)

Quarto 25.5 x 20.5 cm., wrappers, 57(6) pp., 16 sheets with reproductions. Kakabadze cover design, typography by I. Karseladze. No. 452 of 500 (complete series 510) numbered copies on Outhenin Chalandre fils machine-made laid paper (ten copies printed on Japan). The first publication devoted exclusively to Kakabadze and the in Georgian language. while he resided and worked in Paris.. David (Davit) Kakabadze (1889-1952) was one of the most important Georgian modernists of great originality. He was a visionary, decidedly modernist but eluding classification into a school. This work reviews his work in Paris over four years and traces his development from figurative realism and Georgian visual motifs into biomorphic abstraction and a thoroughly mature voice. While in Paris, Kakabadze lectured on art and wrote theoretical treatises; he was also a noted scholar. He was intrigued by kinetic art and cinematography. This book discusses a stereoscopic projector for 3-D images he invented, also reproduced here. Kakabadze returned to Georgia from Paris in 1927 and worked with increasing restraint thereafter, producing monumental landscapes. Later in life he was dogged by Soviet critics for his inability to forgo formalism and conform to state dictates. New Georgian Book Design 5, pp.68-71. OCLC finds two North American institutions (Yale, Philadelphia MA) holding copies. Endpaper, title and a few sheets of text stamped in the margin with an imprint of a Georgian collector.