Groznyi Smekh. Okna ROSTA. (A Menacing Laughter. The ROSTA Windows)
Stepanova. Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Moscow - Leningrad. Khudozhestvennaia literatura. 1932
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A striking example of avant-garde typography in the service of propaganda, Menacing Laughter is perhaps best known for the striking serialist endpapers featuring Boris Ignatovich's photograph of a Red Guard. The design of the book is noteworthy in that the text is presented in panels centred on the gutter of the book while the illustrations are at the outer edge of the page; every second page has no illustration and is cropped to the text. The illustrations themselves are propagandist cartoons of the generic type. [Rowell & Wye 1006 - 1010].
A striking example of avant-garde typography in the service of propaganda, Menacing Laughter is perhaps best known for the striking serialist endpapers featuring Boris Ignatovich's photograph of a Red Guard. The design of the book is noteworthy in that the text is presented in panels centred on the gutter of the book while the illustrations are at the outer edge of the page; every second page has no illustration and is cropped to the text. The illustrations themselves are propagandist cartoons of the generic type. [Rowell & Wye 1006 - 1010].
pp. 79. 4to. Illustrated throughout with monochrome images of propaganda cartoons. Original publisher's cream boards with typographic design in red and black, endpapers in red and black incorporating a serialist photograph by Boris Ignatovich.
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