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[MAYAKOVSKY] Detiam [i.e. To Children]

Mayakovsky, V.

Item #2242

Moscow: Detizdat, 1937. 58, [2] pp., 4 ills. 26х20 cm. In original illustrated cardboard.

Posthumous edition of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s children’s poetry designed by Ukrainian Jewish avant-garde artist Natan Altman (1889-1970).
He tended to Cubism in the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet period. In the USSR, Altman worked fruitfully in the Moscow State Jewish Theater (GOSET) in Moscow, and produced the silent film “Jewish Luck” based on Sholem Aleichem’s work. In early 1928, Altman toured with GOSET to Europe, after which he remained in Paris until 1935. Natan Altman came back to the USSR after the Stalinist purges had already begun, so he was forced to apply his talent to book graphics and design of postage stamps. His particular book became one of the safe projects that helped Altman financially in those harsh years.
This book collected 11 poems that became the gold classics for all Soviet children since the 1930s. The edition includes 3 full-page illustrations by Natan Altman and a photograph of Mayakovsky against the background of his ROSTA-Windows.

The only copy of this edition is located at the University of Notre Dame.

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