TATLIN -- PUNIN, Nikolai (1888-1953). Pamiatnik III Internatsionala. [Monument to the Third International.] St. Petersburg: NKP, 1920. Small 2° (281 x 220mm). (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original illustrated wrappers printed in red and black, half-tone reproduction on front cover and inside front cover (light wear and light soiling).
TATLIN -- PUNIN, Nikolai (1888-1953). Pamiatnik III Internatsionala. [Monument to the Third International.] St. Petersburg: NKP, 1920. Small 2° (281 x 220mm). (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original illustrated wrappers printed in red and black, half-tone reproduction on front cover and inside front cover (light wear and light soiling).

细节
TATLIN -- PUNIN, Nikolai (1888-1953). Pamiatnik III Internatsionala. [Monument to the Third International.] St. Petersburg: NKP, 1920. Small 2° (281 x 220mm). (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original illustrated wrappers printed in red and black, half-tone reproduction on front cover and inside front cover (light wear and light soiling).

FIRST EDITION of Punin's appreciation of Vladimir Tatlin never-built revolutionary monument. Tatlin's tower embodies the ideas of Constructivism in architecture, and intended in part to challenge Eiffel's tower as the ultimate symbol of modernity. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p. 200.