Dvum [For Two].
Petrograd: Segodnya, 1919.] 8 pp., small 4to (205 x 153 mm). Original wrappers with hand-colored linocut by Ekaterina Turova and printer’s device designed by Vera Ermolaeva. Condition: back wrapper detached but present, occasional light soiling to wrappers; slightly tanned. rare hand-colored copy of the first and only edition of kuzmin’s children’s book. No. 46 of 125 hand-colored copies. Contains a device in watercolor by Turova not in the regular edition. The second of the two poems was dedicated to Lili Brik ("L. Iu. B." or "love"), the wife of Osip Brik and Vladimir Mayakovsky's mistress. “ Segodnya ” (Today) was an artist’s artel or collective who met in Ermolaeva’s apartment. In 1918, they established the world’s first avant-garde children’s book publisher. “The collapse of printing today has given birth to a new kind of ‘handicraft’—art publishing. In St. Petersburg a cooperative of writers and artists has developed. They themselves compose and make the linocuts, they themselves set and print the work. One can find a measure of consolation in the fact that the present crisis makes us return to the fine old handcraft skills, which are now cheaper to use” ( Tvorchestvo [Creativity] , 1919). The artel broke up when the Commisariat of Enlightenment appointed Ermolaeva rector of the art academy in Vitebsk. She later died in The Gulag. MoMA 258; Borovkov p. 151.
Dvum [For Two].
Petrograd: Segodnya, 1919.] 8 pp., small 4to (205 x 153 mm). Original wrappers with hand-colored linocut by Ekaterina Turova and printer’s device designed by Vera Ermolaeva. Condition: back wrapper detached but present, occasional light soiling to wrappers; slightly tanned. rare hand-colored copy of the first and only edition of kuzmin’s children’s book. No. 46 of 125 hand-colored copies. Contains a device in watercolor by Turova not in the regular edition. The second of the two poems was dedicated to Lili Brik ("L. Iu. B." or "love"), the wife of Osip Brik and Vladimir Mayakovsky's mistress. “ Segodnya ” (Today) was an artist’s artel or collective who met in Ermolaeva’s apartment. In 1918, they established the world’s first avant-garde children’s book publisher. “The collapse of printing today has given birth to a new kind of ‘handicraft’—art publishing. In St. Petersburg a cooperative of writers and artists has developed. They themselves compose and make the linocuts, they themselves set and print the work. One can find a measure of consolation in the fact that the present crisis makes us return to the fine old handcraft skills, which are now cheaper to use” ( Tvorchestvo [Creativity] , 1919). The artel broke up when the Commisariat of Enlightenment appointed Ermolaeva rector of the art academy in Vitebsk. She later died in The Gulag. MoMA 258; Borovkov p. 151.
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