El Lissitzky on Paper

Print Culture, Architecture, Politics, 1919–1933

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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An examination of the importance of paper in the work of Soviet artist, designer, and architect El Lissitzky. Russian artist El Lissitzky’s work spans painting, photography, theatrical and exhibition design, architecture, graphic design, typography, and literature. He was active in the Jewish cultural renaissance, formed an artists’ collective with Kazimir Malevich, was a key figure in the dissemination of early Soviet art in Western Europe, and designed propaganda for the Stalin regime. With such a varied history and body of work, scholars have often struggled to identify the core principles that tied his diverse oeuvre together. In El Lissitzky on Paper, Samuel Johnson argues that Lissitzky’s commitment to creating works on paper is a constant that unites his endeavors. Paper played a key role in the utopian projects that informed Lissitzky’s work, and the artist held a commitment to print as the premier medium of immediate public exchange. Johnson analyzes and contextualizes this idea against the USSR’s strict management of this essential resource and the growth of new media communications, including the telephone, telegraph, and film. With this book, Johnson presents a significant contribution to scholarship on this major artist, revealing new connections between Lissitzky’s work in architecture and visual art and bringing to light sources from largely unstudied Russian archives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-06-10
Mått178 x 254 x 25 mm
Vikt934 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226524238

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Note on Transliteration Introduction 1. UNOVIS: Utopian or Scientific?Of 2 Squares: An UNOVIS PrimerContest of the Faculties: The Proletkult Purge and the Founding of VKhUTEMASProun: Toward a New Body 2. The International SetVeshch’ Objet Gegenstand and the Economic QuestionFrom Destruction to Demonstration: Prouns Space in CirculationSet/Reset: Orientation and the EverydayInstallation: The Room of Typo-Lithography 3. Still MovementsGhosts of Production: Old Novelties ReviewedImaginary Constructions: Film and the Unity to ComeIrrational Desires: Reckoning with Advertising 4. Typographical ArchitecturePlaying Against Type: The Wolkenbügel as Historical MonumentA Visiting Card for Moscow: Transit, Communication, and the Production of SpaceOrientation and the Mobile Viewer 5. Toward an Agitation-EnvironmentCompromise Formations: The All-Union Polygraphics ExhibitionArchaism as Renewal: Photo-paintingInternational Review: Pressa, Politics, and the End of NEP 6. The Image ComplexThe Ogonek Printing Works: A Structure in FluxThe Printer’s ViewConverting Currents: Dneprostroi in Pictures Afterword AcknowledgmentsNotesIllustration CreditsIndex

"Johnson's El Lissitzky on Paper delimits Lissitzky's activity mostly to paperwork. . . . Johnson opts for a poetic mode of narration. His book unfolds through a series of suggestive juxtapositions, presented diachronically. Each chapter offers a sequence of descriptive vignettes, arranged in such a way as to generate dialogue between them. For instance, Johnson's parallel discussion of Lissitzky's exhibition showrooms and typographic designs for printed media implicitly suggests that the artist's three-dimensional projects utilized the skills that were developed initially in his two-dimensional experiments. . . . A global artist in Stalin's isolationist times, he managed to remain both avant-garde architect and skillful propagandist, always proving his readiness to pivot."