El Lissitzky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and others
For the Voice
1923
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- Artist: El Lissitzky
- Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Publisher: R. S. F. S. R. State Publishing House
- Printer: Lutze & Vogt
For the Voice
1923
Physical Qualities
Bound volume with letterpress, Book: 187 x 135 x 8 mm. (7 3/8 x 5 5/16 x 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 189 x 133 mm. (7 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of Dr. Grace McCallum; Gift of Gladys Mills in Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lippman; Gift of Alfred R. and Henry G. Riggs in Memory of General Lawrason Riggs; and Gift of Mrs. Harry Slack, Jr.
Object Number
1986.73
On the title page of "For the Voice", El Lissitzky identifies himself as a “book constructor” and appropriately so, for following on the heels of the 1917 Russian Revolution he was creating a book for a new, proletariat society. El Lissitzky’s innovative design for this pocket-sized tome included a tabbed index keyed to pictograms that enabled one to easily thumb to and read one’s favorite pro-Soviet poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Each poem is prefaced with a black-and-red-composition made entirely of printing elements found in a typesetter’s case, including letters, punctuation marks, and borders.
Jay FIsher, BMA, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.
Darsie Alexander, BMA, 'Mechanical Form/Mechanical Vision,' December 12, 2001-April 7, 2002.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
Darsie Alexander, BMA, 'Mechanical Form/Mechanical Vision,' December 12, 2001-April 7, 2002.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
