"The main visual effect is created by the inclusion of the text into the space of decorative-illustrative elements made up of processed photographs, reproduced by means of xerography, each representing views of the city from the attic window. <...> The book gives the impression of unity and was created in the spirit of the Futurist artists’ books, which the artist acknowledged as one of the key sources for his own creative approach."
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Elena Grigoryants Absorbing the Futurist heritage: Vasily Vlasov and Alexey Parygin / The Futurist Tradition in Contemporary Russian Artists’ Books // International Yearbook of Futurism Studies / Special Issue on Russian Futurism. Ed. by Günter Berghaus. — Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter. Vol. 9 — 2019. — P. 282.
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