[New LEF: Monthly Journal of the Left Front of the Arts]. Novyi LEF: Ezhemesiachnyi zhurnal levogo fronta iskusstv. No 6 (1927).

Editor-in-сhief V. Mayakovsky.
Cover by Alexander Rodchenko.

[Moscow], Gosizdat, 1927.
8vo, 48 pp., ill.

In original pictorial wrappers with photomontage. Issued without title page.
Near very good condition, light wear to wrappers and spine, minor soiling to wrappers and some pages.

One of 3 000 copies published.         

This issue of the prominent literary-critical periodical 'New LEF' features a cover designed by the renowned Soviet photographer and constructivist Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956). For the cover, Rodchenko used a photograph of Ivan Morozov, a student at VKhUTEMAS, where Rodchenko taught.
Notably, this issue also includes Rodchenko's striking photo reportage on Red Army maneuvers with aerostats, originally created in 1924. This reportage is significant as one of the artist's earliest ventures into the genre.
The issue features a range of texts, including excerpts from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem 'October', the essay 'LEF's Notebook', the poem 'Battle Alarm' by Nikolai Aseyev, the essay '60 Days Without Service' by Viktor Shklovsky, the poem 'The Derby' by Petr Neznamov, as well as the articles 'Rhythm and Syntax' by Osip Brik and 'Literary Experiment (Essay) in Its Formal Surroundings' by Vladimir Shklovsky. The latter, Vladimir Shklovsky, a philologist and religious activist, was the older brother of the renowned critic and writer Viktor Shklovsky. Arrested multiple times in the early 1920s, he was executed in 1937.