Ignat´ev, Ivan Vasil´evich (1892 - 1914) [Kazanskii, Ivan Vasil´evich, pseud.]	Nebokopy. [Spb., Peterburgskii glashatai, 1913] 16 p.	€750

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8 vo, publishers covers with publishing house logo and Ivan Ignat´ev´s portrait. Ego-futurist text printed on front cover, lists of publications, postal cards and addresses of distributors are printed on back cover. VERY GOOD. Contributors: Chebotarevskaia Anastasiia; Khovin, Viktor ; Gnedov, Vasilisk, Shershenevich, Vadim A rare anthology of ego-futurists, missing in many private and public collections on Russian Avantgarde in Russia proper and outside Russia. The only copy known to cataloger was sold about 10 years ago in Germany to a private collector. Ego-Futurism was a Russian literary movement of 1910s, developed within the Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and a small group of his early followers (Sergei Alymov, Vadim Baiian, Vasilisk Gnedov, Graal Arel´skii, Georgii Ivanov, Ivan Ignat´ev, Pavel Kokorin, Ivan Lukash, Dmitrii Kriuchkov, Konstantin Olimpov and others, some living outside St.Petersburg and Moscow). Ego-Futurism was born in 1911, when Severyanin published a small brochure entitled Prolog (Ego-Futurism). Severyanin decried excessive objectivity of the Cubo-Futurists, advocating a more subjective attitude. Although other Russian Futurists dismissed the Ego-Futurists as puerile and vulgar, Severyanin argued that his advancement of outspoken sensuality, neologisms and ostentatious selfishness qualifies as futurism. The Ego-Futurists significantly influenced the Imaginists of the 1920s. Not in Rowell, Margit; Wye, Deborah The Russian Avant-garde Book 1910-1934. NY., The Museum of Modern Art, 2002 See: Bobrinskia, Ekaterina Futurizm. M., Galart, 2000 ; Russkii futurizm.Teoriia. Praktika. Kritika Vospominaniia. Moscow, 1999; Petrova, E. (2000) Russkii futurizm Spb., 2000; Krusanov, A.V. All his publications on Russian Avant-garde.