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Year
1935
Medium
Seven volumes, quarto; gravure plates. An abundance of fold-outs, gate-folds, and accordion folds, collages, and cut-outs; printed on a variety of paper types. Six separately bound books in wrappers, each numbered one to six and with its own photographic images and embossed designs on the cover. One folder labeled "seven" with fold-out map laid in. Photographically illustrated canvas slipcase
Dimensions
original box, closed: 14 7/16 × 10 13/16 × 2 3/16" (36.7 × 27.5 × 5.5 cm)
Collection
Museum of Modern Art
Artist
El Lissitzky

Artist

El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky

Painting

El Lissitzky was a Russian and Soviet artist, active as a painter, illustrator, designer, printmaker, photographer, and architect. He was an important figure of the avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union.

Moscow, Russia

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Ispaniia. !No Pasaran! (Spain! They Shall Not Pass!)

Ispaniia. !No Pasaran! (Spain! They Shall Not Pass!)

1937 · Printed book with letterpress and photolithography, embossing and collaged photograph

WW-1937-126162
The Industry of Socialism (Industriia sotsializma)

The Industry of Socialism (Industriia sotsializma)

1935 · Letterpress and gravure, complete set of 7 volumes in a slipcase

WW-1935-126169
Tekhnicheskaia propaganda

Tekhnicheskaia propaganda

1933 · Book

WW-1933-M073701
SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen 15 letiiu krasnoi armii (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: Fifteen Years of the Red Army), no. 2

SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen 15 letiiu krasnoi armii (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: Fifteen Years of the Red Army), no. 2

1933 · Journal, photogravure printed

WW-1933-M022630
SSSR stroit sotsializm (USSR Builds Socialism)

SSSR stroit sotsializm (USSR Builds Socialism)

1933 · Album illustrated with photomontages and decorated cloth-backed cream boards

WW-1933-136124
Arkhitektura sovremennogo Zapada (Western Architecture Today)

Arkhitektura sovremennogo Zapada (Western Architecture Today)

1932 · Illustrated book with gilt lettered blue cloth cover, decorated title-page and photomontages

WW-1932-136130
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Year
1935
Dimensions
original box, closed: 14 7/16 × 10 13/16 × 2 3/16" (36.7 × 27.5 × 5.5 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1935-M128068

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Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky

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