El Lissitzky
Russian, 1890–1941
Veshchʹ : mezhdunarodnoe obozrenie sovremennogo iskusstva (Subject: international review of modern art)
INV-1991
El Lissitzky
Russian, 1890–19411922
Veshchʹ : mezhdunarodnoe obozrenie sovremennogo iskusstva (Subject: international review of modern art)
El Lissitzky Russian, 1890–1941 →avant-garde20th Centurygraphic design
Date
1922
Medium
Periodical with letterpress decorated wrappers, two issues
Dimensions
31 × 23.2 × 0.3 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/8 × 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
In 1922 designer El Lissitzky and writer Ilya Ehrenburg founded an international design magazine featuring articles in Russian, German, and French. The goal of the journal was to publicize their recent experiences with Constructivism and disseminate their ideas about the role of art in revolutionary society. The articles highlight the important dialogue occurring between designers in the Soviet Union and Western Europe at this time, including those working out of institutions such as the Bauhaus.
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