For the Voice

Item

Title
For the Voice
Creator
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Contributor
El Lissitzky, 1890-1941
Patricia Railing
Date
2000
Date Copyrighted
©2000
Language
English, Russian
Publisher
MIT Press
Extent
3 volumes: illustrations (some color); 19 cm
Identifier
741.64 M4519d:E Architecture & Art Vault [non-circulating]
Library catalog
Description
Issued in container. Includes bibliographical references and index.
First published in Berlin in Spring 1923, For the voice is a collection of 13 poems for reading out loud. In his dynamic graphics for each of the poems, El Lissitzky captured the ideas visually to inspire the reader. Together, poet and book constructor made, in Lissitzky's words, "the book as a work of art".
Subject
Artists' books
Artists' books, Specimens
Site pages
For the Voice