For the voice

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Where to find it

Art Library — Artists' Book Collection

Call Number
N7433.4.M59 D6 2000 v.1-3
Status
In-Library Use Only

Davis Library (6th floor)

Call Number
PG3476.M3 D5713 2000 v.1
Status
Available
Call Number
PG3476.M3 D5713 2000 v.2
Status
Available
Call Number
PG3476.M3 D5713 2000 v.3
Status
Available

Summary

For the Voice , first published in 1923, has long been recognized as one of the finest achievements of Russian avant-garde bookmaking, a tradition in which poets and artists collaborated to create books that attained the status of art objects. By any reckoning, For the Voice is a landmark event in the history of modern graphic design. The book was inspired by the "new optics," where ideas are given form through printed letters, turning them into pictorial signs, and by "words that are seen and not heard," as Lissitzky wrote.

This three-volume slipcased set consists of a facsimile volume that is faithful to the original in size, color, weight, and paper quality; a translation by Peter France of the original text; and Voices of Revolution , a collection of critical essays that analyze the character and significance of the original publication and describe the inner workings of the poet's "construction in sound" complemented by the designer's "constructions for the eye."

Contents

v. 1. For the voice : a facsimile of the 1923 Russian edition / Vladimir Mayakovsky ; El Lissitzky, book constructor -- v. 2. For the voice / Vlaidimir [i.e. Vladimir] Mayakovsky ; El Lissitzky, book constructor ; English translation by Peter France ; visual translation by Martha Scotford -- v. 3. For the voice : voices of revolution : a collection of essays / edited by Patricia Railing.

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