BRUSSELS — In 1931, the Russian Futurist poet Vasily Kamensky enlisted the help of Konstantin Bor Ramensky to illustrate the cover of his latest book, Youth of Mayakovsky. It was a complicated assignment fraught with comradeship and emotion: the book, published just one year after the suicide of Futurism’s de facto poet laureate Vladimir Mayakovsky, was to reflect on the life of the mammoth literary figure, who also happened to be Kamensky’s close friend. How to capture Mayakovsky in a mere five by seven inches?
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