El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts
El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts
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El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts. Introduction by Herbert Read. Published by Thames & Hudson, 1968.
Lazar Markovich (El) Lissitzky (1890 –1941) was an artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements, and he experimented with production techniques and stylistic devices that would go on to dominate 20th-century graphic design.
This book, compiled by Lissitzky's widow, is the first full-length, fully-documented study of the artist to appear. It opens with a long biographical section, largely based on his letters, which throw a great deal of light on his aims and on the circles in which he moved. This is followed by a series of plates in which every field of his activity is handsomely represented, and by two valuable collections of literary documents: theoretical writings by Lissitzky himself, and accounts of him by contemporaries and by later critics."
Hardcover. 410 pages. 278 plates, 100 in color. 8"w x 11"h x 1.25"d
Book in good condition; some wear & tear on dust jacket and yellowing around edges of pages. Inside cover contains personal note dated 1971.
