''Skulptur'' (, 'Sculpture') is a 1921

Yiddish language Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with ...

short book written by

Joseph Chaikov Joseph Moisevich Chaikov (, also spelled, among other spellings, Tshaykov, Tchaikov, and Tchaikovsky; 1888 – 1979) was a Russian Imperial and Soviet Russian sculptor, graphic designer and teacher of Ukrainian Jewish descent. Biography Born in ...

. The book was the first book in

Yiddish Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with ...

on sculpture. In ''Skulptur'', Chaikov advocates

avant-garde In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable ...

sculpture as a contribution to a new Jewish art. ''Skulptur'' was published by in

Kiev Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

and contains 15 pages.Tradition and revolution: the Jewish renaissance in Russian avant-garde art, 1912-1928 Ruth Apter-Gabriel, Israel Museum (1987)
p. 225

References

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