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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perloff, Nancy.

Reed, Brian M.

Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941.

Series:

Issues & debates ; 12.

Issues & debates ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Lissitzky, El.

Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Russia (Federation)--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Criticism and interpretation.

Russia (Federation).

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 275 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, [2003]

Summary:

El Lissitzky Remains an Enigma Despite His Fame. A Prolific Painter, Graphic Designer, Architect, and Photographer, He Worked with the Soviet and European Artistic Avant-Gardes in the 1920s and as a Propagandist for the Stalinist Regime in the Following Decade. Situating El Lissitzky Reassesses Lissitzky's Complex Career, Creating a Kaleidoscopic Portrait of an Artist Seeking to Reconcile Radical Aesthetics with Political Expedience.

Contents:

The Puzzle of El Lissitzky's Artistic Identity / Nancy Perloff 1

Part I. East-West

El Lissitzky and the Export of Constructivism / Christina Lodder 27

Definitive Space: The Many Utopias of El Lissitzky's Proun Room / Eva Forgacs 47

Constructivism Disoriented: El Lissitzky's Dresden and Hannover Demonstrationsraume / Maria Gough 77

Part II. Hand-Eye

Manipulating Metaphors: El Lissitzky and the Crafted Hand / John E. Bowlt 129

El Lissitzky's Camera Corpus / Leah Dickerman 153

After Vitebsk: El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich, 1924-1929 / Margarita Tupitsyn 177

Part III. Propaganda

El Lissitzky in Vitebsk / T. J. Clark 199

El Lissitzky circa 1935: Two Propaganda Projects Reconsidered / Peter Nisbet 211

Plates 235

Five Letters 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

089236677X

OCLC:

51818687