Screen print, 410mm x 290mm, of an enlarged image of a page from El Lissitzky’s designed book of revolutionary poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky For the Voice [1923], onto pages from a facsimile edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer, a collection of works by Geoffrey Chaucer published by the Kelmscott Press [1896], designed by William Morris.

The title beaT bouT is a translation/transliteration of the Russian text on the page from For the Voice.

Available in an edition of 270 individual prints. Each screen print is printed on a different page of the Kelmscott Chaucer and is therefore unique. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Published in connection with "Announcer", Focal Point Gallery

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/10081