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RODCHENKO, ALEXANDER

KIRSANOV, Semen Isaakovich

Poslednii sovremennik [The Last Contemporary]

KIRSANOV, Semen Isaakovich. Poslednii sovremennik. [The Last Contemporary]. 95 pp. 8vo, 180 x 130 mm., bound in publisher's two-color Constructivist wrappers designed by Aleksander Rodchenko, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Federatsiya, 1930.

A fine copy of this typical example of Rodchenko's work as a book designer. The author of the work, Semen Kirsanov, became a member of Vladmir 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.

OCLC lists: Columbia, Cornell, Getty, Amherst, Harvard Stanford, U. of Chicago, Waseda and Art Gallery of Ontario.

Item nr. 169839
Price: $1,750.00