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Satires

This is a limited edition of an art book containing a series

of Diana Bychkova's original etchings and double-page illustrations

based on everyday satires about St. Petersburg from Sasha Chernyi’s collected poems of 1907-1922

This book contains 5 chapters with poems, 5 frontispieces (26.5 x 20 cm) illustrating each chapter,

and 13 miniature etchings (8 x 8 cm). The long format of the book (16.5 x 35 cm),

cover and title design reflect newspapers of the early 20th century.

The 13 etchings are hand-printed for each copy of the edition.

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About the creation of this book:

I conducted a research project at the National Library in Kyiv on the design of newspapers of the beginning of the 20th century. I studied Russian futurist poetry and wrote an MA thesis titled “The combination of photos, drawings and author’s manuscripts in the book illustration”. Finally, I developed a series of pictures based on Sasha Cherny’s satiric poems about everyday life in St. Petersburg and transferred them into etchings on zinc.

Exhibitions and publications:

2010 — A short report about my pictures on S. Chernyi’s poems, published in the journal “Segretti di Bocca”, Milan, n. 25, p. 10.

2010 — This series of illustrations “Satires” has been displayed in the exhibition Festa del Dialogo and published in the catalogue of the same name, GraFiMar: Milan, p.10-11.

2010 — published as a mini-book by Alberto Casiraghi, Pulcinoelefante: Osnago, Italy.

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