El Lissitzky
Subtitle: the experience of totality
By: catalogue coordination, Miriam Querol ; translations, Philip Sutton
Contributors: Querol, Miriam, editor; Sutton, Philip, translator; Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto; Museo Picasso Málaga; Fundació Caixa de Catalunya
Publisher: La Fabrica
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9788415691532
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Experience of totality
Description: Eliezar (Lazar) Markovich Lissitzky (Russia, 1890-1941), El Lissitzky, is one of the most influential, experimental and controversial artists of the early decades of the twentieth century. He worked with the Soviets after the October Revolution of 1917, with European avante-garde art in the 1920s, and as a propagandist of the Stalinist regime throughout the 1930s until his death. He was a painter, graphic designer and typographer, designer of exhibitions, architect and photographer. One of the most important characteristics of his life and work was the crossing of borders and frontiers.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Museo Picasso Málaga, Mart - Museo d'arte moderna e contamporánea di Trento e Rovereto, Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, Barcelona and La Fábrica, Madrid.

Exhibition held at Mart - Museu di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 15 February-8 June 2014 ; Museo Picasso Málaga, 23 June-24 September 2014 ; Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, 20 October 2014-18 January 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: El Lissitzky : the experience of totality / Olivia María Rubio; title: Eliezer Lissitzky, a Jewish artist / Valery Dymshits; title: Graphic art/painting; title: Photography; title: Reading El Lissitzky : from avant-garde artist to state designer / Victor Margolin; title: Graphic design; title: El Lissitzky and his German exhibition projects / Isabel Tejeda Martín; title: Architecture/exhibition design; title: Letters; title: Chronology; title: List of works.