For the Voice

by Vladimir Mayakovsky

For the Voice , first published in 1923, has long been recognized as one of the finest achievements of Russian avant-garde bookmaking, a tradition in which poets and artists collaborated to create books that attained the status of art objects. By any reckoning, For the Voice is a landmark event in the history of modern graphic design. The book was inspired by the "new optics," where ideas are given form through printed letters, turning them into pictorial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262133776
• ISBN13: 9780262133777
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.3" x 7.6"