Beschreibung:

Color and Rhyme.
Various sizes. In Russian and English. 38 issues from 66 published: nos. 17-24, 26, 29-31, 33-53, 55-57, 60 and 66. Nos. 31, 33, 34, and 37-41 are bound separately in green cloth and includes a Burliuk letter as a pastedown on front endpaper addressed to Boris Viktorovich Smerenskii to whom this vol. is also inscribed. This volume also includes an original inlaid graphic cover and booklets for 1930 Burliuk exhibit at the Roerich Museum and a 1933 exhibit at the Academy of Allied Arts, both in New York. Nos. 49, 55 and 60 inscribed to B. Smerenskii with owner’s bookplates and stamp on front free endpapers; no. 53 with editorial corrections. No. 66 was the final issue and was “Published in honor of poet-artist David Burliuk by Mary Burliuk” subsequent to his death in 1967. Nos. 31 and 49 are devoted to articles and reminiscences of Mayakovsky. Condition : covers partially detached on a few issues, occasional light spotting and thumbsoiling. an astonishing collection that spans some thirty-plus years (1947-1970) from the perspective of the great ukrainian artist as an emigre in new york . News clippings, exhibit announcements, letters to the editor, art reviews, travel pieces, editorials, and all manner of art-related commentary cobbled together in a compelling and engaging fashion. Illustrated throughout. From 1930 to 1966 Burliuk and his wife, Marussia, published Color & Rhyme , primarily concerned with charting Burliuk's activities. He was the co-founder of the Futurist art movement in Russia and a founding member in Germany of both Der Blaue Reiter and Der Sturm . He moved to the United States in 1922, and settled in New York. Marussia Burliuk, acted as publisher and occasional contributor to this seminal avant-garde arts periodical. (38).