El Lissitsky: Life, Letters, Text

Very Fine, near nint copy in VF dust jacket with a tiny 1/8″ closed tear on top of spine on dust jacket, otherwise copy is unread and as issued, a beautiful book! Quarto. Black cloth titled in red with tipped on artwork [as issued]. 410 pp. 103 color plates. 181 black and white illustrations. Multiple paper stocks. Hardcover, NY/UK,ISBN: 9780500230909 / 0500230900, Thames and Hudson, 1980, reprinted edition 1992

Abridged Contents:

•Introduction by Herbert Read
•Life and Letters
•The Plates
•Texts by Lissitzky
•Proun: Not World Visions, But World Reality
•Texts on Lissizky include writings by Ernst Kallai, Traugott Schalcher, Sigfried Giedion, N. Khardzhiev, Jan Tschichold, Joost Baljeu, Mart Stam, Schuldt, Ossip Zadkine and Hans Schmidt
•Also includes Notes, Bibliographical Note, List of Illustrations and Index

“This book complied by Lissitzky’s widow, is the first full-length, fully-documented study of the artist to appear. It opens with a long biographical section, largely based on his letters, which throw a great deal of light on his aims and on the circles in which he moved. This is followed by a series of plates in which every field of his activity is handsomely represented, and by two valuable collections of literary documents: theoretical writings by Lissitzky himself, and accounts of him by contemporaries and by later critics.”

$ 275.00