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Lev Rubinshtein
Мама мыла раму
Mother cleaned the window
Moscow: Goppe, 2012
140 x 168 mm. pages nn.
Edition: 10, copy № 1/10 signed by the
author, with an autograph by the artist,
and with the original water colours,
‘Mother cleaned the window’ is a series of verse-lines for index
cards for which Lev Rubinshtein (born 1947) became famous.
For this 83 verse-lines Goppe choose a simple printing design
and, to underline that this collection was written in 1987, added
a small illustrated Soviet children’s book from the 1980s to the
central pages,. A colour lithograph adorns the cover. The book
has special wrappings with water-colours that show a slightly
satirical image of how collectors had to find a place to stay in
Moscow in order to collect and transport artist’s books.
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