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Hans Arp and El Lissitzky (eds.)

Die Kunstismen

1914–1924, Reprint 1990

This surprising collection of “isms” ranks among the most important publications on avant-garde art in the 1920s. Hans Arp and El Lissitzky took a refreshing, frankly opinionated inventory of artistic attitudes and movements from 1914 to 1924. Lissitzky’s exuberant design of the book epitomizes the style of the times.

Edited by Hans Arp, El Lissitzky

With photographs by El Lissitzky

With a contribution by Alois M. Müller (commentary)

20,5 × 26,5, 8 ¾ × 10 ½ in

60 pages, 75 illustrations

hardback

1990, 978-3-906700-28-1, German
English
French

Design History XX The Century of Print

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Hans Arp

HANS PETER WILHELM ARP, also JEAN ARP (1886–1966) was a French-German painter, graphic artist, sculptor and lyricist. Arp moved in the artistic circles of the Constructivists and the Paris Surrealists, co-founding Dadaism in Zurich in 1916 as a literary and artistic movement in response to World War I and against its social conventions. He worked closely with his wife Sophie Taeuber-Arp
and at times with other artists.

El Lissitzky

EL LISSITZKY (1890–1941) was a Russian architect and painter, who from 1919/20 onward was involved with Suprematism. Between 1919 and 1927 he produced a large body of paintings, prints and drawings that he referred to by the word Proun, an acronym for “project for the affirmation of the new” in Russian. Lissitzky’s versatile body of work includes poster and theater set design, typography and architecture.

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