Pro Eto. Ei I Mne (About This. For Her and For Me)

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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)

Date1923

DimensionsPage: 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.3 cm)

MediumPhotomontage reproductions; letterpress

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund

Object number

1989.17

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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."

Label TextAbout 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.”Exhibition HistoryTMA show: Russia After the Czars, 1/23/97 - 3/30/97 Between the Wars; Sept. 5 2008 through Dec.31 2008