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

An examination of the importance of paper in the work of Soviet artist, designer, and architect El...
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Author: Samuel Johnson
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El Lissitzky on Paper: Print Culture, Architecture, Politics, 1919-1933 by Johnson, Samuel

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

$152.90

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

$152.90
Author: Samuel Johnson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.


Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 06/10/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.02lbs
Size: 10.24h x 6.93w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780226524238

About the Author
Samuel Johnson is the Carole & Alvin I. Schragis Faculty Fellow and assistant professor of art history at Syracuse University.

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