Description: VLADIMIR MAJAKOVSKIJ, O TOM Uncommon 1987 Czech Anthology 92 pages with 32 illustrations, some in color Vladimir Remes [essay]: VLADIMIR MAJAKOVSKIJ, O TOM. Prague: Mlada Fronta, 1987. First edition. Text in Czech. A very good soft cover book with thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear including slight rubbing to the white cover. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 8.25 x 11.75 scarce soft cover book with 92 pages and 32 illustrations, some in color. Russian translation of "O Tom" by poet Jiri Taufer; all other poetry translated by Milan Dvorak. Majakovskij started out as an artist and graphic designer before becoming a famous poet. The illustrations included with his poems mirror Mayakovsky’s restless nature, a man capable of many personae, but only one kind of art -- outstanding. Includes a great deal of work by Alexander Rodchenko ( the set of Rodchenko’s photomontages from "About This," 1923), but also by El Lissitzky and Gustav Klucis among others. Excerpted from the website for the non-profit Poets: Born in Baghdati, Russian Empire (now Mayakovsky, Georgia) on July 19, 1893, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was the youngest child of Ukrainian parents. When his father, a forester, died in 1906, the family moved to Moscow, where Mayakovsky joined the Social Democratic Labour Party as a teenager in 1908 . . . . He spent much of the next two years in prison due to his political activities. In 1910, Mayakovsky began studying painting, soon realizing he had a talent for poetry. In 1912, he signed the Futurist manifesto “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste,” which included two of his poems. In 1913, he published his first solo project, “Ya,” a small book of four poems. Mayakovsky’s early poems established him as one of the more original poets to come out of the Russian Futurism, a movement characterized by a rejection of traditional elements in favor of formal experimentation, and which welcomed social change promised by technologies such as automobiles. Living in Smolny, Petrograd, in 1917, Mayakovsky witnessed the early Bolshevik insurrections of the Russian Revolution. This was a fruitful period for the poet, who greeted the revolution with a number of poetic and dramatic works, including “Ode to the Revolution” (1918), “Left March” (1918), the long poem “150,000,000” (1920), and “Mystery-Bouffe” (1918), a political satire and one of the first major plays of the Soviet era. Mayakovsky returned to Moscow to create graphics and verses for the Russian State Telegraph Agency, and became involved in Left Front of the Arts, editing its journal, LEF. The journal’s objective was to “re-examine the ideology and practices of so-called leftist art, and to abandon individualism to increase art’s value for developing communism.” In 1919, he published “Collected Works 1909–1919,” which further established his reputation. Mayakovsky’s popularity granted him unusual freedoms, relative to other Soviets. Specifically, he travelled freely, throughout the Soviet Union, as well as to Latvia, Britain, Germany, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. In 1925, he published “My Discovery of America.” On April 14, 1930, he allegedly shot himself directly in the heart. Ten days later, the officer investigating the poet’s suicide was himself killed, fueling speculation about the nature of Mayakovsky’s death. Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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