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KLUTSIS, GUSTAV GUSTAVOVICH. 1895-1938; AND VALENTINA NIKIFOROVNA KULAGINA. 1902-1987.4 works by the couple, including: 1. KLUTSIS, GUSTAV GUSTAVOVICH. Izofront: Klassovaya borba na fronte prostranstvennykh iskusstv [Art Front: Class Struggle on the Visual Arts Front]. Moscow and Leningrad: OGIZ Izogiz, 1931. Square 8vo. Photogravure illustrations. Publisher's two-color Constructivist beveled black cloth. The six articles include Klutsis' "Photomontage as a New Kind of the Agitational Art," on pp 117-32. 2. KLUTSIS, GUSTAV GUSTAVOVICH, and ALEKSEI ELISEEVICH KRUCHENYKH. 1886-1968. Priemy Leninskoy rechi. [Studies of Lenin's Language]. Moscow: Izdanie Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1928. 8vo. Third printing. Publisher's two-color Constructivist wrappers designed by Klutsis. One of 1,000 copies. 3. KULAGINA, VALENTINA NIKIFOROVNA; and ALEKSEI ELISEEVICH KRUCHENYKH. Chernaya taina Esenina [Esenin's Black Secret]. 12mo. Moscow: published by the author, 1926. Frontispiece portrait of S. Esenin by Kulagina. Publisher's Constructivist tan wrappers designed by Kulagina. 4. ---. Liki Esenina [Esenin the Hooligan]. Moscow: Published by the author, 1926. 8vo. 2 portraits by Kulagina. Publisher's Constructivist tan wrappers designed by Kulagina. Cover detached. Latvian-born Klutsis was one of the greatest of Soviet photocollagists, most famous for his posters extolling the virtues of Lenin and Stalin. While he propagated the role of the noble male Worker during the Five Year Plan, his wife Kulagina did the same with the female. But his Constructivist agitational propaganda fell out of favor and he was arrested and executed in 1938. Kulagina sought in vain for years to find out what happened to him. Klutsis was not rehabilitated until 1956.