[Satire in the Struggle for Peace]. Satira v Borbe za Mir.

In Russian, English and French.
Introduction by Boris Efimov.

Moskva, Izdatel’stvo “Plakat”, 1979.
Oblong 8vo, [118] pp., ill.

In original pictorial boards and shipping box.
In good condition, light wear to boards, light spotting to fore-edge, owner signature to first free endpaper verso, shipping box with dampstaining to bottom edge.

Yayoi Kusama's first appearance in the USSR.

This is the catalog for the third international exhibition titled ‘Satire in the Struggle for Peace’ held in 1977 in Moscow. The exhibition aimed to support the antiwar movement and draw attention to the need to curb the arms race. It features artworks by artists from the USSR, Mongolia, Cuba, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, France, the USA, Germany, Denmark, Mexico, Colombia, Portugal, Japan, and more.
Among the featured artists is Ollie Harrington (1912-1995), whom Langston Hughes described as ‘America’s greatest African-American cartoonist’. This exhibition also marked the debut of Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) in the USSR. Today, she is recognized as one of the most important living artists from Japan, the world’s top-selling female artist, and the most successful living artist overall. At this exhibition, she presented the watercolor 'Tidal Waves of War', created in 1977, after her return to Japan from New York. This period was marked by intense criticism from the Japanese art world and the press, as well as a suicide attempt. During this time, she found a doctor who utilized art therapy to treat her mental illness, and she has chosen to live in the hospital ever since. This work is now part of the collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.