Inside the Rainbow by Julian Rothenstein

In his introduction to the volume, Chepyzhov states that Georgian book design of the 1920s and 1930s has up to now remained unnoticed by researchers, due to the dominance of Socialist Realism from the mid-1930s onward. Sharing a personal collection of books and journals from the 1920s and 1930s, which has been painstakingly gathered and preserved, he gives us a tantalizing glimpse of a vivid literary and artistic episode that is ripe for further exploration.

In New Georgian Book Design, 1920s-1930s, the bookseller and collector Pavel Chepyzhov presents us with an anthology that charts his own voyage of discovery into the overlooked past of Georgian book design. This might be through the dog-eared pages, the strange smell it has acquired from many years of storage, or the content, which may be startingly different from that of its contemporary neighbors on the bookcase. When we encounter a book that is interestingly old or otherwise unfamiliar, it becomes a thing of great discovery, something which asks us to make the leap of imagination to another time and another place. The book is an object with which we all engage on a daily basis, yet most of the time we take this for granted, without stopping to think about what we are holding in our hands. ISBN-13 978-8301202347.ĭetiiam budushchego (To Children of the Future) Series. Pavel Chepyzhov, New Georgian Book Design, 1920s-30s.

Inside the Rainbow by Julian Rothenstein