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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

For the Voice: Sounds & Silence in Artists' Books / Bury, Stephen ; Mayakovsky V ; Lissitzky E ; Mallarme S ; Marinetti FT ; Ernst M., 1994

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Identifier: CC-24127-24579
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition at workffortheeyetodo in London, April-May, 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Voices of Revolution: For the Voice / Railing, Patricia, editor ; Mayakovsky V ; Lissitzky E ; Burliuk D ; Margolin V ; France P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-38628-40537
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Thirteen poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky and the graphic design of El Lissitzky are combined in this reprint version of this important Russian Avant Garde book, a set with one copy in Russian and the other translated to English. The Sackner Archive holds an original copy (1923). This set of books also includes one edited by Patricia Railing that features a reminiscence by David Burliuk, excerpts from an interview with El Lissitzky, notes on the visual translation of For the Voice, and an essay titled "For the Voice and For the Eye - Notes on the Aesthetics in For the Voice." Each poem by Mayakovsky is extensively annotated by several contributors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000