Situating El Lissitzky : Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow / edited by Nancy Perloff and Brian Reed.

Title & Author:

Situating El Lissitzky : Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow / edited by Nancy Perloff and Brian Reed.

Publication:

Description:

275 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.

Series:

Issues & debates

Notes:
Includes correspondence between El Lissitzky and Jan Tschichold.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The puzzle of El Lissitzky's artistic identity / Nancy Perloff -- El Lissitzky and the export of constructivism / Christina Lodder -- Definitive space : the many utopias of El Lissitzky's Proun room / Éva Forgács -- Constructivism disoriented : El Lissitzky's Dresden and Hannover Demonstrationsräume / Maria Gough -- Manipulating metaphors : El Lissitzky and the crafted hand / John E. Bowlt -- El Lissitzky's camera corpus / Leah Dickerman -- After Vitebsk : El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich, 1924-1929 / Margarita Tupitsyn -- El Lissitzky in Vitebsk / T.J. Clark -- El Lissitzky circa 1935 : two propaganda projects reconsidered / Peter Nisbet.

Summary:

Reassessing the complex career of one of the most influential yet controversial experimental artists of the early 20th century, this volume of essays looks at the prolific painter, designer, architect and photographer, El Lissitzky (1890-1941).

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

089236677X (paperback)
9780892366774 (paperback)

Subject:

Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941 Criticism and interpretation.
Lisitskii, Lazar Markovich Criticism and interpretation.
Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941
Lisickij, Lazarʹ M.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia (Federation) History 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Beeldende kunsten.
Constructivisme.
Avant-garde Rússia.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia 20th century.
Artists Russia 20th century.
Jewish artists Russia 20th century.
Russia (Federation)

Form/genre:

Correspondence.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Perloff, Nancy.
Reed, Brian M.
Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941.
Perloff, Nancy Lynn
Reed, Brian, 1971-
Tschichold, Jan, 1902-1974
Issues & debates.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228939
Call No.: NA44.L772.9 S57 2003
Status: Available

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