[THE LEF MANIFESTO IN JAPANESE - MAYAKOVSKY - RODCHENKO] Geijutsu sensen [Art Front]

Scarce single volume comprising translations into Japanese of works by Sergei Esenin, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Vladimir Lidin, Vladimir Mayakovsky (fifty pages), Boris Pilniak, Lidiia Seifullina, Ilya Erenburg, and others. The volume concludes with a 28-page supplement that contains a declaration published in the first issue of LEF, the print organ of the Left Front of Arts, in March 1923, and which served as its manifesto. Each section is preceded by a black-and-white portrait of the author, including that of Mayakovsky. The translator and compiler, Keishi Oze (Ose, 1889-1952), had visited the Soviet Union in the 1920s and subsequently published a wide-ranging overview of the politics, sociology, geography, and culture of the new Soviet state.

The wrappers feature the cover of the second issue of LEF (Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstva), by Aleksandr Rodchenko.

As of March 2024, KVK, OCLC show no copies outside of Japan. Scarce single volume comprising translations into Japanese of works by Sergei Esenin, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Vladimir Lidin, Vladimir Mayakovsky (fifty pages), Boris Pilniak, Lidiia Seifullina, Ilya Erenburg, and others. The volume concludes with a 28-page supplement that contains a declaration published in the first issue of LEF, the print organ of the Left Front of Arts, in March 1923, and which served as its manifesto. Each section is preceded by a black-and-white portrait of the author, including that of Mayakovsky. The translator and compiler, Keishi Oze (Ose, 1889-1952), had visited the Soviet Union in the 1920s and subsequently published a wide-ranging overview of the politics, sociology, geography, and culture of the new Soviet state.

The wrappers feature the cover of the second issue of LEF (Zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstva), by Aleksandr Rodchenko.

As of March 2024, KVK, OCLC show no copies outside of Japan.