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RODCHENKO, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1891-1956) (il

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Moscow: "Federatsiya," 1930. 96 pp., 8vo (175 x 120 mm). Original two color Constructivist wrappers designed by Rodchenko. Condition: backstrip tanned with slight chip at head and tail, wrapper edges with minor creasing. When he moved to Moscow from Odessa in 1925, Kirsanov became a member of Vladmiri Mayakovsky's group LEF. In the 1930s he used his poetry to further the propaganda and agitation goals of the Soviet government. He later created a number of famous slogans for factories and construction sites. During the Great Patriotric War (World War II), he went to the front lines to report back to TASS. One of 3000 copies. MoMA 891.

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