"LEF" / "Novy LEF", Journal of the Left Front of the Arts – Three Issues – Moscow-Leningrad, 1923-1928 – Covers ...

"LEF" / "Novy LEF", Journal of the Left Front of the Arts – Three Issues – Moscow-Leningrad, 1923-1928 – Covers Designed by Alexander Rodchenko
Three issues of the journal of the Left Front of the Arts (Левый фронт искусства) in the Soviet Union. Moscow-Leningrad (St. Petersburg), 1923-1928. Russian. Covers designed by Alexander Rodchenko.
• ЛЕФ (LEF) – Left Front of the Arts. Two issues edited by Vladimir Mayakovsky – first year, issue no. 2 (April-May, 1923); second year, issue no. 1 (1924).
• Новый ЛЕФ (Novy LEF) – the New Left Front of the Arts. Issue no. 12, edited by Sergei Tretyakov. [1928].
The covers of all three issues were designed by Alexander Rodchenko. Issue no. 2 (1923) features logos of an airline company designed by Rodchenko, alongside examples of sports clothing designed by his wife, artist Varvara Stepanova.
The Left Front of the Arts was an association of Constructivist and Futurist artists and intellectuals active in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, headed by poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The LEF journal, edited by Mayakovaky, was published between 1923 and 1925. Renamed "Novy LEF" ("The New LEF") in 1927, the journal went on publishing shorter issues until 1929. In its last months of publication, the journal was edited by writer and playwright Sergei Tret'iakov.
The journal LEF was the first publication in the Soviet Union to feature photomontages. Its successor, the Novy LEF, called for documentation of daily life in the Soviet Union by means of photography and cinema and dedicated many of its articles to the developments in these two fields. It also published works by prominent avant-garde artists.
Three issues, size and condition vary.