Shopotnye aforizmy (Whispering Aphorisms)

Parizh (Paris): Vopros, 1969. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 5 x 3 3/4; pp. 3-14; brown wraps, printed in black;small nicks to tips of spine; manuscript letter to front wrap and title page; in very good condition.Sergei Sharshun (1888 - 1975) was an important modern painter and the first Russian Dada poet, who arguably never belonged to an individual School of Art and whose style was described as an "alternative abstraction," when compared to his contemporaries. Spending most of his life in France, he founded the Dadaist group "Palata poetov" and was known to take inspiration for his art from classical composers, particularly Tchaikovsky and Bach.