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LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941) (illu

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Moscow: Tsentrifuga, 1916. 64 pp., small 4to (235 x 190 mm). Wrappers with cover design in rust and black by Lissitzky. Condition: slight chipping to tail of backstrip, small split at tail of front wrapper. one of 480 copies. Bolshakov was a Russian Futurist poet who was strongly influenced by Vladimir Mayakovsky's urban poetry. He dedicated poems in this collection to Mikhail Kuzmin (pp. 30 and 54-55); Lissitzky (p. 35); Lilya Brik (p. 38); Mayakovsky (pp. 48 and 57-58); Boris Pasternak (pp. 55-56); Vladimir Khodasevich (pp. 56-57); Valerei Briusov (pp. 58-59); and Kuzmin's lover, Iurii Iurkyn (p. 59). Compton, 1978, p. 42 and Pl. 18; Harvard p. 178; MoMA 126; Getty 95.

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