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Pro Eto. Ei I Mne (About This. For Her and For Me)
Artist: Alexander Rodchenko (Russian, 1891-1956)
Publisher: Government Printers, Moscow and Petrograd
Printer: Lithography union "Pechatnaya yakovleva", printed in Moscow
Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky (Maïakovski) (Russian, 1893--1930)
Date: 1923
Dimensions:
Page: 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.3 cm)
Medium: Photomontage reproductions; letterpress
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Mrs. George W. Stevens Fund
Object number: 1989.17
Label Text:About This is one of several innovative collaborations between Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Mayakovsky’s poem concerns his passionate affair with his married lover Lilya Brik, expressing tumultuous feelings of love, jealousy, and hopelessness. Rodchenko cut and juxtaposed photographic fragments from published sources and from commissioned photographs of Brik and Mayakovsky (at left and top). His photomontages develop visual counterpoints to the poetic leaps and anarchic energy of Mayakovsky’s text, here accompanying the lines “I catch my balance, waving terribly … I’m only poetry, only the heart.”
DescriptionAlexander Rodchenko
Russian, 1891-1956
PRO ETO. EI I MNE (ABOUT THIS: TO HER AND TO ME)
Text by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1923
Photolithograph of a photomontage
Mrs. George W. Stevens Fund, 1989.17
About This is one of several innovative collaborations between Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Mayakovsky's poem concerns his passionate affair with his married lover Lilya Brik, expressing tumultuous feelings of love, jealousy, and hopelessness. Rodchenko cut and juxtaposed photographic fragments from published sources and from commissioned photographs of Brik and Mayakovsky (at left and top). His photomontages develop visual counterpoints to the poetic leaps and anarchic energy of Mayakovsky's text, here accompanying the lines "I catch my balance, waving terribly … I'm only poetry, only the heart."
Russian, 1891-1956
PRO ETO. EI I MNE (ABOUT THIS: TO HER AND TO ME)
Text by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1923
Photolithograph of a photomontage
Mrs. George W. Stevens Fund, 1989.17
About This is one of several innovative collaborations between Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Mayakovsky's poem concerns his passionate affair with his married lover Lilya Brik, expressing tumultuous feelings of love, jealousy, and hopelessness. Rodchenko cut and juxtaposed photographic fragments from published sources and from commissioned photographs of Brik and Mayakovsky (at left and top). His photomontages develop visual counterpoints to the poetic leaps and anarchic energy of Mayakovsky's text, here accompanying the lines "I catch my balance, waving terribly … I'm only poetry, only the heart."
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