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        "tombstone": "13 poems written by Vladimir Mayakovsky: For the Voice, 1923. El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890\u20131941), Gosudarstvenoe Izadatelstvo. Book containing 61 pages with letterpress designs printed in red and black ink; cover printed in red and black ink on orange paper; sheet: 18.5 x 13 cm (7 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.); cover: 18.7 x 13.4 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of various donors to the department of Prints and Drawings, 2002.60. \u00a9 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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        "title": "For the Voice",
        "series": "13 poems written by Vladimir Mayakovsky",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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            {
                "inscription": "inscribed in red ink and dated: Bepe Kongeruhohne (?) og C.M. Cronuwa 8/I 24 (Bepe Kongeruhohre? gave the book to Mark Slonim on January 8th, 1924)",
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        "description": "The radically innovative <em>For the Voice</em> is considered to be El Lissitzky's most spectacular achievement in book illustration, or \"book construction\" as the artist described his work. A champion of Russian Constructivism, Lissitzky used pure, abstract forms to express progressive social values and his hope of transforming the world through science and technology on both a private and public level. In his designs for this book, Lissitzky mixed fonts and turned variously sized letters in different directions amid a cacophony of squares and circles and diagonal, vertical, and horizontal stripes. Printing the image in black and red, he aimed to capture and keep the viewer's attention. Lissitzky's inventiveness extended to the page margins, which are stepped like an address book to form an index to the poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Russian avant-garde author whose voice resounded throughout the 1920s. The collection of 13 poems is meant to be read aloud\u2014hence, the title.",
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