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Andrei Vaganov
Осеиь академика
Autumn of an Academic
Moscow: Goppe, 2015
200 x 288 mm. 20 pages
Edition: 15, copy № 1/15

‘Autumn of an Academic’ written by the journalist, poet and
translator Andrei Vaganov, is a selection from the diaries of
the academic Sergei Vavilov (1891-1951), the founder of the
Soviet school of physical optics and member of the Supreme
Soviet and a recipient of four Stalin prizes. The covers of this
book are two pages from a vintage photo-album complete
with inserted vintage photographs. To the verses Goppe
designed eight linocuts similar in style to other publications
of 2015 (see for example cat. 138 and 140)

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