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KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich (1886-1968), Ivan K

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[Moscow: Budetlian, 1915] [Cover dated 1916]. 32 pp. 4to (225 x 191 mm). Frontispiece, cover design and two lithographs by Kliun. Original decorated wrappers. Condition: wrappers lightly tanned. a scarce copy that includes the first appearance in print of a text by malevich. Kruchenykh launches an impassioned attack upon received nineteenth century Russian Symbolist sensibilities and advocates for a new, experimental poetic language; a "transrational" linguistic expression he famously labeled zaum.

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