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            Slava Len
            Х-Процесс
            The X-process
            Moscow: Goppe, 2011
            316215 mm.  pages  nn.
            Edition: 10, copy № 1/10 with autograph
            both of author and artist
            Slava Lën (born 1937 as Vladislav Bogatishev-Epishin)
            is a Russian poet, an artist and a scholar in geography,
            philosophy, and mathematics. He has three honorary
            doctorates for his work in the almanac Neue Russische
            Literatur (New Russian Literature), which he started in
            1978 in Salzburg (Austria). In 1989 he left Russia for
            the United States to work as a professor of literature.
            In 2001 he returned to Russia. The name Lën (Lohn in
            German) he took from his mother. The book ’X-Process,
            a poem’, is illustrated and designed by Goppe in a
            constructivist style. The handset typography is placed in
            an angle on the page, and the colour lithographs, in the
            constructivists’ colours black and red, show elements
            such as squares, (half)circles and rectangles in various
            compositions that are inspired by constructivism.
            ‘Cannon Fodder’ is a short reportage by John Lesin

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