Die Kunstismen: 1914-1924
from Lars Müller Publishers
Edited by Jean Hans Arp & El Lissitzky. Essay by Alois M. Muller.
9.75 x 10.5 in.
75 illustrations
English/French/German
Had gadya: The Only Kid: Facsimile of El Lissitzky's Edition of 1919 (Resources Series)
from Getty Publications
This illustrated version of the popular Passover song "Had gadya" was the wonderfully playful offspring of the avant-garde artist El Lissitzky (1890-1941). It dates to a little-known period early in his career when he immersed himself in the Jewish cultural renaissance that flourished in Russia from roughly 1912 to the early 1920s. Signed with his Hebrew given name, this volume-with its wraparound cover, colorful lithographic montages, and stylized use of Yiddish and Aramaic words-celebrates Lissitzky's interest in Jewish folk traditions while looking forward to the dynamic graphic and typographic designs for which he is best remembered.
This near-scale facsimile-including the rarely seen cover-allows readers to experience Lissitzky's Had gadya as originally envisioned. It is accompanied here by Nancy Perloff's discussion of the work's cultural and artistic contexts, Arnold J. Band's English translation of Lissitzky's Yiddish version of the song, sections on Lissitzky's iconography and vocabulary, and lyrics set to music.
Frank Stella: Illustrations After El Lissitzky's Had Gadya 1982-84
Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow (Issues and Debates Series)
from Getty Publications
El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet: Photography, Design, Collaboration
by Margarita Tupitsyn
from Yale University Press
The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946
by Victor Margolin
from University Of Chicago Press
"An ambitious effort. This book puts the masters of European Modernism into perfect focus as inventors, propagators, and practitioners of a visual language that continues to hold sway over contemporary graphic style."—Steven Heller
"Worth the wait. . . . Margolin usefully presents what he calls the 'failed hope' of this movement in this valuable effort."—Publishers Weekly
El Lissitzky: 1890-1941 : Architect, Painter, Photographer, Typographer
Frank Stella, Had Gadya - after El Lissitzky: A series of prints, 1982-1984
Lissitzky: Contributions to graphic design
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