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This is the definitive contemporaneous catalog of Russian and Eastern European Avant Garde books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was curated by Carla Roncato and Andrea Dal Lago. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue has extensive reproductions of the covers of Russian Avante Garde books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ellen Lupton reviewed The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946. Steven Heller contributed an interview with Rick Poynor, design writer and editor of Eye Magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book reprints the poem Mayakovsky's "Pro Eto," written between December 1922 and February 1923, along with English and German translations, documentation, color reproductions of the original photomontages, and critical text. Alexander Lavrentiev writes that "it is a work in which Mayakovsky uses the novel medium of freely associative verse to grapple - sometimes realistically, sometimes availing himself of poetic licence - with love and philistinism, revolution and drinking tea." When Mayakovsky travelled to Berlin for an exhibition of works by graphic artists from Russia, he noticed publications that successfully used photographs and photomontages instead of drawings. He requested Rodchenko, with whom he had previously collaborated in advertising work, to produce photomontages for the book. Pro Eto was published in 1923. The book is considered one of the milestones in innovative literary content and graphic presentation first "because it represents a new kind of love poetry....

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This catalogue provides a good description of the issues of 291. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, "Esprit" is a typed concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. At this auction, Uldaltsova watercolor and gouache, constructivist drawings, ranging in size from 19 x 20 cm to 24 x 22 cm, bought $20,000 to $35,000. An Uldaltsova constructivistic drawing, 36 x 24 cm in size, is held by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition of Russian Avant-Garde books from the Judith Rothschild Collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Selim O. Kahn-Magomedov wrote the text which was edited by Vieri Quilici. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Alexander Lavrentiev, grandson of Stepanova, wrote the text which was edited by John E. Bowlt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reviews several New York gallery exhibitions taking place at the same time as "The Great Utopia," a major exhibition from Russian State Galleries being shown at the Guggenheim Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.