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El LISSITZKY

El LISSITZKY

Veshch/Objet/Gegenstand.  No. 1-2.  Il’ia Erenburg and Lissitzky ed.  32 pp.  Illustrated throughout with photographs and typographical flourishes.  Folio, 308 x 232 mm, bound in publisher’s red wrappers designed by Lissitzy.  Berlin: 1922.

A fine copy of this short lived periodical created by Lissitzky and Erenburg to disseminate the ideas of Constructivism throughout Western Europe.  The cover with a striking typographical design by Lissitzky.  With text in Russian, French and German. 

Some light underlining and marginalia throughout.  Overall in a remarkable state of preservation given its fragile nature.   

Rowell & Wye 410.

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