A set of seven issues of the magazine "A Ya," an underground Russian art revue of unofficial Russian art. It was prepared illegally in the USSR and published in Paris from 1979 to 1986. Editors: Alexander Sidorov (under the pseudonym "Aleksey Alekseev"), Moscow, Igor Shelkovsky, Paris. The magazine was distributed in the USA by Alexander Kosolapov, New York. The first issue was published with a circulation of 7,000 copies, and other editions were published with a circulation of 3,000 copies. The magazine allowed the world to discover the names of those artists who belonged to unofficial, nonconformist art in the USSR: Eric Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev, Ilya Kabakov, Dmitry Prigov, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid and many others. This set was published by a group of Russian artists in NY who stopped after the 5th issue. It's probably the only full set, as the magazine never was in circulation. Which makes this lot a museum quality item.

Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in., (29.5 x 21 cm.)