![TATLIN -- PUNIN, Nikolai (1888-1953). Pamiatnik III Internatsionala. [Monument to the Third International.] St. Petersburg: NKP, 1920. Small 2° (281 x 220mm). (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original illustrated wrappers printed in red and black, half-tone reproduction on front cover and inside front cover (light wear and light soiling).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_06237_0452_000(tatlin_--_punin_nikolai_pamiatnik_iii_internatsionala_monument_to_the090240).jpg?w=1)
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TATLIN -- PUNIN, Nikolai (1888-1953). Pamiatnik III Internatsionala. [Monument to the Third International.] St. Petersburg: NKP, 1920. Small 2° (281 x 220mm). (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original illustrated wrappers printed in red and black, half-tone reproduction on front cover and inside front cover (light wear and light soiling).
FIRST EDITION of Punin's appreciation of Vladimir Tatlin never-built revolutionary monument. Tatlin's tower embodies the ideas of Constructivism in architecture, and intended in part to challenge Eiffel's tower as the ultimate symbol of modernity. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p. 200.
FIRST EDITION of Punin's appreciation of Vladimir Tatlin never-built revolutionary monument. Tatlin's tower embodies the ideas of Constructivism in architecture, and intended in part to challenge Eiffel's tower as the ultimate symbol of modernity. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p. 200.