Persha Vseukrains´ska vystavka Asotsiiatsyi revoliutsinoho mystetstva Ukrainy ARMU. Berezen´- Kviten´1927 rik. Kataloh. Kharkiv, Sotsiial´nyi muzei im.Artema, [1927] 56, [1], [25 b/w plates]
(Vydannia Ts.B. ARMU)
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8vo, publishers decorated wrs. 750 copies printed. Very rare.
The only copy, known to cataloger was sold in 2004 by a German dealer and the owner of art gallery in Berlin.The description from his printed list of rare Russian and Slavic books issued in 25 copies reads as following: 'Die Gruppe ARMU war 1920 als Vereiningung der 'Boitschukisten' gegründt worden, benannt nach Michail Boitschuk, Vertreter dez 'Byzantinismus'. [...] Full description in German will be sent on request.

Among contributors are Ukrainian artists, sculptors, designers and architects of the period.The catalog was withdrawn from all Soviet libraries and book trade net in 1930s. It was included in the Ukranian list of banned books prior to early 1980s.

See: Danzker, Ukraine & Avatgarde, p.57; Mystetstvo ukrain´skoi diaspory.Povernuti imena.Vypusk I. Kyiv,1998; Krusanov, A.V. Futuristicheskaia revoliutsiia.1917-1921.Kniga 2. M., NLO, 2003