Lot Essay
The book is an attack by Kruchenkyk, Malevich and Kliun on the decadent Symbolist past in literature and the visual arts (The Avant-Garde in Russia, Exhib. cat., 1980, p. 168)
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Ivan Vasilievich Kliun
Alexei Kruchenykh, Ivan Vasilievich Kliun, Kasmir Malevich, Secret Vices of the Academicians (Tainye Poroki Akedemikov), Moscow, 1916 (Compton p. 126)
Lithographs, 1915, on wove paper, title lithographed and two plates, 32 pages of text, from the edition of 450, with margins as published, minor defects at edges, the cover with some defects and losses at edges and on the spine
overall S. 9 x 7½in (23 x 19cm)
(album)
Alexei Kruchenykh, Ivan Vasilievich Kliun, Kasmir Malevich, Secret Vices of the Academicians (Tainye Poroki Akedemikov), Moscow, 1916 (Compton p. 126)
Lithographs, 1915, on wove paper, title lithographed and two plates, 32 pages of text, from the edition of 450, with margins as published, minor defects at edges, the cover with some defects and losses at edges and on the spine
overall S. 9 x 7½in (23 x 19cm)
(album)