KUZNETSOV, PAVEL VARFOLOMEVICH, and ELENA BEBUTUVA, illustrators. Moi zhurnal-Vasiliya Kamenskogo [Vasilii Kamenskii's My Journal]. No. 1, February 1922. Folio. 16 pp. Original two-color decorated wrappers designed by P. V. Kuznetsov and E. Bedumovaya. Soiled and discolored along edges. FIRST AND ONLY NUMBER of this rare Russian avant-garde art and literary magazine. One of 3,000 copies. V.V. Kamenskii was a Russian Futurist writer who founded the Hylaea group with D. Burlyuk and V. Khlebnikov. He is probably best remembered for the zhelezobetonnye poemy or ferro-concrete poems that appeared in his collection, Tango s korovami [Tango with Cows] (1914), printed on fancy wallpaper. He continued to write in the Russian avant-garde manner and joined V. Mayakovsky's LEF group. Most of the contributions in Moi zhurnal were written by him. This issue includes an essay on Pushkin, Lermontov, Mayakovsky and Kamenskii; and one item, "Pismo v Perm" [Letter to Perm"], was published upside down. P.V. Kusnetsov made his reputation as a Symbolist painter but his later work belongs to the Russian avant garde.
KUZNETSOV, PAVEL VARFOLOMEVICH, and ELENA BEBUTUVA, illustrators. Moi zhurnal-Vasiliya Kamenskogo [Vasilii Kamenskii's My Journal]. No. 1, February 1922. Folio. 16 pp. Original two-color decorated wrappers designed by P. V. Kuznetsov and E. Bedumovaya. Soiled and discolored along edges. FIRST AND ONLY NUMBER of this rare Russian avant-garde art and literary magazine. One of 3,000 copies. V.V. Kamenskii was a Russian Futurist writer who founded the Hylaea group with D. Burlyuk and V. Khlebnikov. He is probably best remembered for the zhelezobetonnye poemy or ferro-concrete poems that appeared in his collection, Tango s korovami [Tango with Cows] (1914), printed on fancy wallpaper. He continued to write in the Russian avant-garde manner and joined V. Mayakovsky's LEF group. Most of the contributions in Moi zhurnal were written by him. This issue includes an essay on Pushkin, Lermontov, Mayakovsky and Kamenskii; and one item, "Pismo v Perm" [Letter to Perm"], was published upside down. P.V. Kusnetsov made his reputation as a Symbolist painter but his later work belongs to the Russian avant garde.
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