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El Lissitzky
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Catalog cover by El Lissitzky in Bauhaus Asymmetric style, featuring large, bold black letters and numbers arranged at varying angles with Russian and German text. Dlya golosa (For the Voice)
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Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
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Close-up of a palette held by a man. Mixing paint, painting, color mixing.
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Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.
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"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
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El Lissitzky: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Books treating facets of Lissitzky’s life and work include Nancy Perloff and Brian Reed (eds.), Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow (2003); Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers (ed.), El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts (1968, originally published in German, 1967; reprinted 1992), trans. from German by Helene Aldwinckle and Mary Whittall; and Victor Margolin, The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917–1946 (1997). Exhibition catalogs include Margarita Tupitsyn et al., El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet: Photography, Design, Collaboration (1999); and Peter Nisbet, El Lissitzky, 1890–1941 (1987).

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