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

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[Berlin : Buchdruckerei Lutze & Vogt,] 1923. 98 pp., 8vo (210 x 155 mm). Translated from the Ukrainian by Leib Kvitko. With 10 illustrations by Lisstizky. Original Suprematist decorated wrappers in red designed by Lissitzky. Condition: wrappers slightly discolored with occasional light staining; backstrip extremities with minor chipping. first and only edition with these illustrations. The tight and often lively pictures bristle with the tension between folk and modern art. They are among Lissitzky's best. Some of the famous folk tales in this collection are "A Glove," "A Dumpling" and "The Flying Ship." The decorative and abstract cover design with the title in Yiddish anticipate more revolutionary Suprematist work and contrast with the folk art-inspired illustrations within. Kvitko (1890-1952) was a well-known Ukrainian-born Yiddish writer of children's poems. As a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), he was an editor of the organization's newspaper Einigkeit and literary magazine Heymland. During Stalin's last anti-Semitic campaign, Kvitko was arrested with other members of JAC and executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952. Apter-Gabriel 103.

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