ILIAZD (Ilia Zdanévitch, dit). - Lot 75

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ILIAZD (Ilia Zdanévitch, dit). - Lot 75
ILIAZD (Ilia Zdanévitch, dit). Poetry of unknown words. [...]. Paris, Le Degré 41, Year 1919 and 1930 [1949]. Large volume in-8, in sheets, in illustrated parchment overlay folder on the first cover, parchment wrapper (Publisher's binding). Famous anthology of phonetic poetry and zaum (Russian variant of literary Dadaism) published by Iliazd, presenting unpublished or published texts in reviews, between 1910 and 1948, of 21 poets belonging to the Futurist and Dadaistic avant-garde of the years 1910-1920: Ronke Akinsemoyin, Pierre Albert-Biro, Jean Arp, Antonin Artaud, Audiberti, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, etc. This publication is part of the polemic between Iliazd and Isidore Isou and his Lettrist poetry. It is a major work of the twentieth century, both artistically and typographically. The illustration, specially composed for the book, includes 27 original engravings in various techniques, executed by the following artists: Jean Arp (three woodcuts), Jacques Villon (an etching), Oscar Dominguez (a burin), Henri Matisse (a linoleum), Pablo Picasso (a burin and two lithographs), Georges Braque (a lithograph), Jean Metzinger (a drypoint), Albert Gleizes (two etchings), Camille Bryen (a drypoint), Henri Laurens (an etching), Raoul Haussmann (two woodcuts), Alberto Magnelli (an aquatint), Fernand Léger (a lithograph), Wols (a drypoint), André Masson (an etching), Marc Chagall (an etching), Alberto Giacometti (an etching), Serge Férat (a lithograph), Léopold Survage (a woodcut), Edgard Tytgat (a woodcut), and Joan Miró (a lithograph) Edition of 158 (and not 157 as wrongly announced in the justification) copies on Isle de France laid paper, numbered at the press: this is one of the 41 copies of collaborators, called companion copies, signed in pencil by the publisher. A very pure copy, as issued, in sheets under its parchment cover and envelope.
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