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KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich (1886-1968) and Val

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Moscow: Izdanie Vcerossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1925. 64 pp., square 8vo (180 x 140 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by V. N. Kulagina-Klutsis. Condition: wrappers somewhat frayed and soiled; some internal soiling. first edition. One of 300 copies. Kruchenykh is considered to be the most radical of the Russian Futurist poets and the inventor of zaum, the "transrational" or "beyonsense" linguistic experiments that he continued exploring throughout his life. V. N. Kulagina-Klutsis was the wife of the great photocollagist and poster designer Gustav Klutsis as well as a distinguished Soviet propaganda poster artist in her own right. "[Kulagina] purposely made some of the title appear 'out of key' by allowing some letters to read out of register where the background color changes from red to black, thus emphasizing their meaning" (Compton, p. 80). MoMA 599; Getty 392.

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