NATALIA SERGEEVNA GONTCHAROVA (1881-1962)/ ALEKSEI... Lot n° 1004

'Vzorval' (Explodity), 1913. St. Peterburg, self published, 1913. In-12°. 29 pp. One of the 450 unnumbered copies. Lithographed throughout with illustrations after Goncharova, Kulbin, Rozanova, Al'tman and Malevich, rubber-stamped text. Orig. ill. covers, possibly coloured by Gontcharova in yellow and red gouache. Back professionally restored. The first edition of this important work was issued in the same year in an edition of 350 copies. Copies of this second edition vary when it comes to the number of pages (see W. Schuhmacher in Catalogue 238, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1912-1932, nr. 67). One of the most effective examples of the Futurist desire to explode traditional categories, and break-down the distinctions between text and image. Lit.: MoMA, The Russian Avant Garde Book, pp.72-3/ Nancy Perloff, Explodity. Sound, Image and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art. Los Angeles, The Getty Reseatch Institute, 2016. Description NL 'Vzorval' (Explodity), 1913. St. Peterburg, self published, 1913. In-12°. 29 pp. One of the 450 unnumbered copies. Lithographed throughout with illustrations after Goncharova, Kulbin, Rozanova, Al'tman and Malevich, rubber-stamped text. Orig. ill. covers, possibly coloured by Gontcharova in yellow and red gouache. Back professionally restored. The first edition of this important work was issued in the same year in an edition of 350 copies. Copies of this second edition vary when it comes to the number of pages (see W. Schuhmacher in Catalogue 238, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1912-1932, nr. 67). One of the most effective examples of the Futurist desire to explode traditional categories, and break-down the distinctions between text and image.