ILIAZD (Ilia Zdanévitch, dit). - Lot 74

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ILIAZD (Ilia Zdanévitch, dit). - Lot 74
ILIAZD (Ilia Zdanévitch, dit). Ledentu Le Phare, dramatic poem in Zaoum. Paris, Iliazd, The degree forty-one, 1923. In-16 jesus, brown buffalo with large grain, on the first plate four lines with letters mosaic in hollow of orange or pale green colors, these lines in a typography inspired by the one of the book and each masked by a tab of mahogany and ebony, same decoration on the second plate reduced to one line, lining and endpapers of skin with silver reflection, not trimmed, cover and back, half-skin folder, case (mm 1979). First book published in France by Iliazd, it is dedicated to the Russian painter Michel Ledentu, who died accidentally in 1917. First edition of this poem in zaum, Russian dadaist language. Precursor of phonetic poetry aiming to merge music, poetry, dance, theater and typography, the zaoum is a language of Russian appearance whose words and onomatopoeias are such that they allow to be the support of several words of close sonority. Ribemont-Dessaignes, in the preface that appears at the head of the book in a separate booklet, explains: As early as 1912, the Russian futurists existed. In 1914, their group split into two. One continues to declare itself futurism, and the other carries as its sign: the forty-one degree. It invented a new language, the zaum, with Iliazd, Kroutchenyh, Terentieff. It is this last movement that can be considered as the Russian form of literary Dadaism. The very remarkable typography of Iliazd makes it one of the major books of the Russian avant-garde. Edition at 530 copies, under cover illustrated with an original collage in colors by Naum Granowsky, made on demand, of which 30 on imperial Japan, the others on Rubel paper. It is believed that only 150 copies out of the 530 were put into circulation because of the cost and the difficulties of hand-crafting the cover, the others would have been sent to the scrap heap (Iliazd Livres, 1993 exhibition, p. 4). One of the 30 first copies on japon impérial, in a letterpress binding by Monique Mathieu.
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