Osip m brik (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large octavo 22.6x15.5 cm., stiff wrappers, 36pp. Photocollage cover design by Anton Lavinskii (1893-1968). A novella. Osip M. Brik (1888-1945) was a writer and literary critic who identified with the Futurists and the avant-garde. He was a founder of IZO Narkompos and wrote screenplays. He was close to and promoted the work of Rodchenko. He famously shared his marriage bed with Mayakovsky, and also worked for the Cheka. Brik was the ideologue of LEF and espoused an intolerance and rejection of other artistic paths; this contributed to being suppressed by the increasing dictates of the State for absolute conformity. The artist Anton Levinskii is an under-appreciated painter and book artist. This is a fine cover design. MOMA 472, Getty 103. A very good copy.…