KURSKYM DELNIKUM, KTERI VYTEZILI PRVNI RUDU, TENTO PROZATINANI POMNIK VYTVORENY VLADIMIREM MAJAKOVSKYM
Vladimir Remes [introductory essay]
Vladimir Remes [introductory essay]: KURSKYM DELNIKUM, KTERI VYTEZILI PRVNI RUDU, TENTO PROZATINANI POMNIK VYTVORENY VLADIMIREM MAJAKOVSKYM. Prague: Mlada Fronta, 1982. First edition. Text in Czech. Silkscreened chipboard covers. Cloth backstrip. 50 pp. 17 color plates. 11 text illustrattions. Japanese-folded bound signatures. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Light wear overall. A nearly fine copy. Rare.
8 x 11.75 scarce soft cover book [silkscreened chipboard covers with cloth back strip] and 50 pages with 17 full-page color photomontages by Yuri Rozhkov and 11 b/w text illustrations. Includes an introductory essay by Vladimir Remes. Translation of Mayakovsky's 1923 poem into Czech by Jiri Taufer.
Yuri Rozhkov, a student at the Vkhutemas State High School for Art and Design created the included color photomontages using lines from Mayakovsky's poem and presented them to the artist. They were included in Mayakovsky's 1928 exhibition Twenty Years of Work.
Text illustrations include work by Edwin S. Porter, Pablo Picasso, Carlo Carra, F. T. Marinetti, Guillaume Apollinaire, Raul Hausmann, George Grosz, Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky.