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ERENBURG, Ilya Grigorevich [Ilia Ehrenburg] (1891-1967) and Fernand LÉGER (1881-1956) (illustrator). A vse-taki ona vertitsya [And All the Same the World Goes Round]. Moscow and Berlin: "Gelikon," 1922. 142 pp. 8vo (220 x 160 mm). Illustrated with photogravures and line illustrations by F. Léger and others. Original decorated wrappers designed by F. Léger. Condition: front wrapper and first two leaves clipped at bottom corner, back wrapper detached but present. rare treatise on contemporary avant-garde art. Among the artists the Russian critic considers are Léger, Lipchitz, Lissitzky, Picasso, Rodchencko, Van Doesburg and even Charlie Chaplin with Cubist drawings by Léger. The book is also noteworthy for its typographical experientation. MoMA 401.ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images: 
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