This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Collection consists of the following materials: Zdanevich, Ilia. Letter to his mother, March 21, 1914; Zdanevich, Ilia. Mimeographed proposal for a speech to mark the 125th anniversary of A.S. Pushkin, Paris, Sorbonne, 1924; Zdanevich, Kirill. Two letters (holograph), March 28, 1962 and n.d.; Zdanevich, Kirill, Cover for a journal "Our Path" in Georgian, May 1924; Zdanevich, Kirill. Composition in Red, Black and Grey, n.d.; Zdanevich, Kirill. "Still Life", Woodblock, n.d.; Cherepnin, Alexander. Music Score (holograph), 1914; Gordeev, Dmitrii et al. Photograph, Tbilisi, 1920 (also included Nina Vasil'eva, Nadezhda Kryzhanovskaia, Iurii Marr, Sofiia Mikhailova). There are also material related to the exhibit, including description of cases, labels, copies of photographs, copy of Portrait of Ilia Zdanevich (Niko Pirosmani, Tiflis, 1913).
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Kirill and Ilia Zdanevich Collection; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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The collection was processed by Tanya Chebotarev in December 2023.
The materials from this collection were collected for the exhibition "Iliazd: the Tbilisi Years'. The focus of this exhibition was a crucial period in the career of Ilia Zdanevich (1894-1975). In his native city of Tbilisi he acquired typographic skills and developed poetic principles that produced masterworks of Russian ZAUM' (or transrational language). His Tbilisi experience laid a foundation for his renowned collaborations in Paris with Picasso, Giacometti, Ernst, and Miro. One of Zdanevich's closest associates in Tbilisi was his older brother Kirill (1892-1969). The brothers' artistic relationship ended abruptly with Ilia's departure in October 1920 for Istanbul and Paris. His brother Kirill never left Georgia.
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