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Aleksandr Rodchenko. Pro eto: Yei i mne [Про это: Ей и мне] (About This: To Her and to Me)

Aleksandr Rodchenko

Pro eto: Yei i mne [Про это: Ей и мне] (About This: To Her and to Me)

Published 1923

Book with eight relief-halftone reproductions of photomontages; letterpress text; publisher’s original paper cover with relief-halftone reproduction of a photograph of Lilia Brik [Лиля Брик] on front and publisher’s device on back

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Author Vladimir Mayakovsky (Владимир Маяковский)
Medium Book with eight relief-halftone reproductions of photomontages; letterpress text; publisher’s original paper cover with relief-halftone reproduction of a photograph of Lilia Brik [Лиля Брик] on front and publisher’s device on back
Dimensions pages: 9 1/16 × 6 1/8 in. (23 × 15.5 cm); book (closed): 9 1/16 × 6 1/8 × 1/8 in. (23 × 15.5 × 0.3 cm)
Publisher Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, Moscow, Gosizdat (State Publishing House of the RSFSR) [Госиздат, Госуда́рственное изда́тельство РСФСР] , Moscow, LEF (Left Front of the Arts / Levyi Front Iskusstv) [ЛЕФ (Левый фронт искусств)], Moscow-Petrograd
Printer Tsinkografiia V.Ts.I.K., Pechatnaya S.P. Yakovleva
Edition 3,000, unnumbered
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 520.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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Aleksandr Rodchenko

Aleksandr Rodchenko

Russian, 1891–1956 247 works online

When The Museum of Modern Art’s first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. , met Aleksandr Rodchenko on his trip to Moscow in 1927—one of the first times an Anglophone art historian had visited the Soviet Union in the years since the Russian Revolution—he wrote, “Rodchenko showed us an appalling variety of things— Suprematist paintings (preceded by the earliest geometrical things I’ve seen, 1915, done with compass)— woodcuts , linoleum cuts , posters , book designs, photographs , kino sets, etc….

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