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Bruno Munari, Nikolay Diulgheroff. L'anguria lirica: Lungo poema passionale (The Lyrical Watermelon: A Long Passionate Poem)

Bruno Munari, Nikolay Diulgheroff

L'anguria lirica: Lungo poema passionale (The Lyrical Watermelon: A Long Passionate Poem)

Published 1934 (texts 1933)

Book with lithographed illustrations and cover design by Munari and lithographed text and typographic designs by d’Albisola; publisher’s original binding: covers and leaves of tin-plated iron, each leaf varnished and attached to copper pin wires held inside a nickel-plated-steel spine tube

MoMA, Floor 5, 505 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries
Author Tullio d'Albisola (Tullio Spartaco Mazzotti), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (preface), Alessandro Prampolini (afterword, as Vittorio Orazi)
Collaborating artist Nikolay Diulgheroff (pgs. 2-3)
Medium Book with lithographed illustrations and cover design by Munari and lithographed text and typographic designs by d’Albisola; publisher’s original binding: covers and leaves of tin-plated iron, each leaf varnished and attached to copper pin wires held inside a nickel-plated-steel spine tube
Dimensions pages: 7 11/16 × 6 1/16 in. (19.5 × 15.4 cm); book (closed): 8 1/8 × 6 11/16 × 1 in. (20.7 × 17 × 2.5 cm)
Publisher Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, Rome, Vincenzo Nosenzo , Savona
Printer Lito-Latta, Savona
Fabricator Lito-Latta, Savona
Edition 101, unnumbered
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 505.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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