[BOOK COVER BY MALEVICH] Pervyi tsikl lektsii, chitannykh na kratkosrochnykh kursakh dlya uchitelei risovaniya: Sovremennoye iskusstvo [i.e. First Cycle of Lectures given for Short Courses for Teachers of Drawing: Contemporary Art]
Petrograd: 17-ya Gos. tip., 1920. 84 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers with a color lithograph by Malevich on each wrapper. Spine restored, otherwise very good copy. A rare example of Malevich’s application of Suprematism to book design. Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) famously proclaimed in the catalog to the Tenth State..... More