“Enhanced by biographies, comprehensive bibliography, and numerous illustrations, New Georgian Book Design, 1920s-30s is a veritable encyclopedia of Georgian Modernism [and an] extraordinary contribution to the history of the international avant-garde. [The authors’] passionate dedication and faultless scholarship have guided an archaeological expedition which has brought to light a verbal and visual legacy long umbrageous, if not, forgotten – and which, undoubtedly, will impact the conventional historiography of 20th-century European art” (John E. Bowlt, University of Southern California, Los Angeles).
Pavel Chepyzhov is the founder and sole owner of Bookvica, with rare antiquarian bookshops in Tbilisi and Moscow. He holds a Master’s degree in Book History from the Moscow Sate University for Printing Arts and has participated in over 30 antiquarian book fairs around the world, including those in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London and Frankfurt. Over the course of several years, Chepyzhov has assembled a collection of Georgian-language constructivist book editions from the 1920s, which were been featured at the “Georgian Avant-Garde” exhibition in Pushkin State Museum of Printing Arts in Moscow. The album New Georgian Book Design (2018; co-edited by art historian Qeti Kintsurashvili) serves as the catalogue of the collection. Chepyzhov is a member of the executive committee of International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Since 2018, he has also been managing the Russian-language bookshop in San Francisco called Globus Books.