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ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevich dit

Lot 92
10.03.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 92 | ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevich dit
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ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevich dit

Lidantiu faram. (Ledentu le phare).

ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevich dit

Lidantiu faram. (Ledentu le phare).

Paris, 41°, 1923



ÉDITION ORIGINALE



EXEMPLAIRE IMPECCABLE



In-8 (190 x 145 mm), 62 pp., non coupé.

TIRAGE : un des 30 exemplaires de tête sur Japon impérial, n°17.

ILLUSTRATION : Couverture illustrée d’un collage par Naum Granovsky.

RÉFÉRENCES : Markov, The Russian Avant-garde book, pp. 354-356 ; Hellyer, n°144 ; Getty Museum, Russian modernism, cat. 249 ; MoMA, Iliazd and the Illustrated book, 1962, cat. 8.



Composition typographique d’Ilia Zdanevich pour le dernier dra du cycle Aslaablichia. Il semble que le tirage réel ait plutôt été de 150 exemplaires. Le reste de l’édition aurait été envoyé au pilon (F. C. dans Iliazd, 1978 : 110).



Le héros éponyme de cette pièce est le peintre Mikhail Ledentu, qu'Iliazd avait rencontré par l'entremise de son frère Kirill. Mobilisé, Ledentu meurt avant son retour du front, en 1917, à l'âge de 26 ans. Iliazd lui rend cet hommage posthume, forme d'apothéose mêlée d'une réflexion autour des liens entre l'art, la réalité et la mort.



"In respect to typography, [Lidantiu faram] is probably the most luxurious one in the world, with hundreds of different sorts of letters used so that the pages become visual works of art in which letters and page numbers jostle one another, fly, jum, and somersault. [The book] is a synthesis of all Zdanevitch's previous trends and motifs. It is mocking and satirical, but, like the Zga play, it investigates the nature of relaity, this time in its relation to art. [...] The play, which combines slapstick with the solution of aesthetic problems, may be considered the oddest literary work of Russia, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece of the Russian poetic avant-garde" (Markov, pp. 354-356).



An exceptionally fine and uncut copy of this scarce, major work by Iliazd.



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2) Ledentu Le Phare. Poème dramatique en zaum. Préface de G. Ribemont-Dessaignes. Couverture de N. Granowsky. Typographie de l’auteur. Paris, Editions du 41°, 1923. In-8 (184x 135 mm), (8 pp.) couverture comprise. Édition originale de la préface de Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes destinée à Ledentu le Phare et qui parut sous forme de plaquette.



3) Ledentu Le Phare. (Préface de G. Ribemont-Dessaignes). Paris, Editions du 41°, 1947. In-8 (185 x 135 mm), (8 pp.), broché, couv. impr. ocre. Exemplaire de la préface de Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes revêtu en 1947 d’une couverture imprimée du texte suivant : "Ce texte est la préface de Ribemont-Dessaignes pour un livre par Iliazd paru à Paris il y a vingt-quatre ans. Les éditeurs redonnent en cette année 1947 quelques exemplaires restés pour prendre part à une discussion et rappeler l’oeuvre de celui qui fut le véritable fondateur du lettrisme". RÉFÉRENCES : Rowell n°459 et ill p. 126-127.

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