Books and Manuscripts · Los 152

Mayakovsky, V. Pro Eto.

Moscow/ Petrograd, Gos. Izd., 1923, 1st ed., 43p., 8 photomontage plates and orig. (front)wr. des. by A. RODCHENKO.

Los
152
Schätzpreis
1.500 € – 2.500 €
Zuschlag
2.200 €
Fotos
2 Fotos

Zustand

Frontwrapper neatly restored along margins (tiny portions lacking at upper edge) and reattached; backwr. and spine renewed; bookplate on verso frontwr.

Anmerkungen

Rowell/ Wye 505 and ills. p.210f; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.85; Khan-Magomedov p.118f: "In 1923 Mayakovsky's poem Pro Eto was published, with illustrations by Rodchenko which are today regarded as a seminal work of photomontage. In fact, it could be claimed that the painter was the co-author of this work, since he had not limited himself to illustrating the poem in order to render its meaning clearer, but had created a series of artistic compositions, capable of conjuring up profound associations of meaning."