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El Lissitzky on Paper - Samuel Johnson

El Lissitzky on Paper

Print Culture, Architecture, Politics, 1919–1933

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2024
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-52423-8 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
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.
 

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

Note on Transliteration
 
Introduction
 
1. UNOVIS: Utopian or Scientific?
Of 2 Squares: An UNOVIS Primer
Contest of the Faculties: The Proletkult Purge and the Founding of VKhUTEMAS
Proun: Toward a New Body
 
2. The International Set
Veshch’ Objet Gegenstand and the Economic Question
From Destruction to Demonstration: Prouns Space in Circulation
Set/Reset: Orientation and the Everyday
Installation: The Room of Typo-Lithography
 
3. Still Movements
Ghosts of Production: Old Novelties Reviewed
Imaginary Constructions: Film and the Unity to Come
Irrational Desires: Reckoning with Advertising
 
4. Typographical Architecture
Playing Against Type: The Wolkenbügel as Historical Monument
A Visiting Card for Moscow: Transit, Communication, and the Production of Space
Orientation and the Mobile Viewer
 
5. Toward an Agitation-Environment
Compromise Formations: The All-Union Polygraphics Exhibition
Archaism as Renewal: Photo-painting
International Review: Pressa, Politics, and the End of NEP
 
6. The Image Complex
The Ogonek Printing Works: A Structure in Flux
The Printer’s View
Converting Currents: Dneprostroi in Pictures
 
Afterword
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 color plates, 79 halftones, 1 line drawings
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 934 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-226-52423-X / 022652423X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-52423-8 / 9780226524238
Zustand Neuware
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