78/1807 [Rodchenko, A.]. Mayakovsky, V. Pro Eto (About this). Moscow/ Petrograd, Gos. Izd., 1923, 1st ed., 43p., 8 photomontage plates and orig. (front)wr. by A. RODCHENKO.

- One plate sl. foxed. Lacks backwr.; frontwr. reattached and restored (closed tears and 2 sm. lacking portions reworked).

= Rowell/ Wye 505 and ills. p.210f; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.85; Khan-Magomedov p.118f: "In 1923 Mayakovsky's poem Pro Eto was published, with illustrations by Rodchenko which are today regarded as a seminal work of photomontage. In fact, it could be claimed that the painter was the co-author of this work, since he had not limited himself to illustrating the poem in order to render its meaning clearer, but had created a series of artistic compositions, capable of conjuring up profound associations of meaning." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVII.