El Lissitzky on Paper - Print Culture, Architecture, Politics, 1919-1933

"The artist and architect El Lissitzky (1890-1941) is celebrated for his contributions to painting, architecture, photography, and graphic design, and for his role in disseminating Russian and Soviet avant-garde art in Europe during the 1920s. Though he worked in a diversity of media, Lissitzky nonetheless produced the majority of his work on paper in the form of innovative photomontages, architectural drawings, lithographs, typography, books, and photo magazines. This monograph--the first career-spanning archival study of Lissitzky since 1968--reveals that the artist's multiple pursuits arose from his deep commitment to print as the premier medium of public exchange in the young and turbulent twentieth century. Samuel Johnson demonstrates that paper and print media were preoccupations that shaped Lissitzky's worldview, values, politics, and production in ways that have never been fully appreciated. Probing Lissitzky's stance on the problems of distribution and reception, this book offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of Lissitzky as experimenter, visionary designer, technocrat, and propagandist-the very prototype of the twentieth-century artist, with a legacy that remains largely on paper"--

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Johnson
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2024
• EAN: 9780226524238
• ISBN: 978-0-226-52423-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 263 mm x 188 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, History of Architecture, Individual artists, art monographs, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, ART / Russian & Soviet