[RUSSIAN LITERATURE] - ÈRENBURG (Ilʹâ Grigorʹevič).
А все-таки она вертится. [And yet the world turns].
Mockba, Берлин: Геликон, 1922 [Moscow, Berlin: Gelikon, 1922]. -In-8, 224x165: 160: 139 pp, (2 ff.), 8 ff. of plates, illustrated cover. Paperback.

First edition of this Russian avant-garde essay by the journalist, writer and poet Il'â Grigor'evič Èrenburg (1891-1967), one of the figures of Constructivism. He studied Russian and non-Russian visual and literary arts.
The edition comprises 8 leaves with 16 black photographic reproductions, including works by Jacques Lipchitz, Lissitsky Prooum, T. van Doesburg, Rodchenko, Fernand Léger, Picasso and others. In addition, there are four compositions by Fernand Léger, including one on the cover, while the other 3 reproduce drawings he made of Charlie Chaplin's character The Tramp, two of which are full-page and one in the text.
Èrenburg was one of those who spread the figure of the Tramp to Eastern Europe, seeing him as the prototype of a new man, a symbol of the cultural revolution that the Constructivists were calling for.
A very well preserved, uncut copy.
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[RUSSIAN LITERATURE] - ÈRENBURG (Ilʹâ Grigorʹevič). А все-таки она вертится. [And yet the world turns]. Mockba, Берлин: Геликон, 1922 [Moscow, Berlin: Gelikon, 1922]. -In-8, 224x165: 160: 139 pp, (2 ff.), 8 ff. of plates, illustrated cover. Paperback. First edition of this Russian avant-garde essay by the journalist, writer and poet Il'â Grigor'evič Èrenburg (1891-1967), one of the figures of Constructivism. He studied Russian and non-Russian visual and literary arts. The edition comprises 8 leaves with 16 black photographic reproductions, including works by Jacques Lipchitz, Lissitsky Prooum, T. van Doesburg, Rodchenko, Fernand Léger, Picasso and others. In addition, there are four compositions by Fernand Léger, including one on the cover, while the other 3 reproduce drawings he made of Charlie Chaplin's character The Tramp, two of which are full-page and one in the text. Èrenburg was one of those who spread the figure of the Tramp to Eastern Europe, seeing him as the prototype of a new man, a symbol of the cultural revolution that the Constructivists were calling for. A very well preserved, uncut copy.

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[RUSSIAN LITERATURE] - ÈRENBURG (Ilʹâ Grigorʹevič). А все-таки она вертится. [And yet the world turns]. Mockba, Берлин: Геликон, 1922 [Moscow, Berlin: Gelikon, 1922]. -In-8, 224x165: 160: 139 pp, (2 ff.), 8 ff. of plates, illustrated cover. Paperback. First edition of this Russian avant-garde essay by the journalist, writer and poet Il'â Grigor'evič Èrenburg (1891-1967), one of the figures of Constructivism. He studied Russian and non-Russian visual and literary arts. The edition comprises 8 leaves with 16 black photographic reproductions, including works by Jacques Lipchitz, Lissitsky Prooum, T. van Doesburg, Rodchenko, Fernand Léger, Picasso and others. In addition, there are four compositions by Fernand Léger, including one on the cover, while the other 3 reproduce drawings he made of Charlie Chaplin's character The Tramp, two of which are full-page and one in the text. Èrenburg was one of those who spread the figure of the Tramp to Eastern Europe, seeing him as the prototype of a new man, a symbol of the cultural revolution that the Constructivists were calling for. A very well preserved, uncut copy.
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