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Moscow and Berlin: Геликон [Helikon], 1922. Fernand Léger, Alexander Rodchenko, Benedikt Livshits, Pablo Picasso, El Lissitzky and others.
ERENBURG'S MANIFESTO ON CONSTRUCTIVISM, 142 pp. Pagination includes initial blank. Text in Russian. With illustrations and typographic experiments. 22.5x16 cm (9x6¼"), printed wrappers with illustration by Léger. One of 500 copies of the trade edition. Ilia Erenburg's manifesto of the burgeoning Constructivist movement. Provenance: Bookplate of child psychoanalyst Anna Maenchen (1902-1991); Bibliographic information in Russian: Эренбург И. А все-таки она вертится. Москва/Берлин: Книгоиздательство "Геликон". Wrappers worn and foxing, volume leaning; bookplate, moderate toning more so to edges. Rowell/ Wye 401; Global Avantgarde Russia 10; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.52: "The year 1922 saw increasing exchange of information about avant-garde art between the Soviet Union and Western Europe. Publications printed in Berlin brought up-to-date news to artists in a language they could understand. Thus, the writer Ilia Ehrenburg's book - with a striking cover by Fernand Léger composed from stenciled letters and machine-like forms - included information about the principal European avant-garde journals (...)." See Vallye, Leger, Modern Art and the Metropolis. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014. Plate 227. Exhibition exhibit on loan from the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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