USSR IM BAU (L URSS EN CONSTRUCTION) - 1917-1937 - XX ANS DE LA GRANDE REVOLUTION SOCIALISTE D OCTOBRE. No. 9-10-11-12. EXEMPLAIRE AYANT APPARTENU A KAREL TEIGE ET SIGNE PAR LUI SUR LA COUVERTURE.

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Moscou, 1937. Staatlicher Kunstverlag. Un fascicule au format 298x420mm. 120 pages. Composition et photomontage par ES et EL LISSITZKY. EXEMPLAIRE AYANT APPARTENU A KAREL TEIGE, SIGNE SUR LA COUVERTURE « KAREL TEIGE 1938 ». 34 photomontages dont plusieurs sur double page, UN POSTER au format 577x830mm d EL LISSITZKY « Constitution ». Sur ce numéro : « Lissitzky's album on the Stalin Constitution, published as the equivalent of four issues in late 1937, was his most ambitious project for USSR in Construction. Representing the zenith of his epic narrative style, the album combined archival materials with documentary photos, drawings, charts, and graphs (.) The cover established the theme of national unity by featuring a plaster seal that represented all the republics of the USSR. For the introductory photomontage on the title page, Lissitzky placed Vera Mukhina's iconic sculpture, Worker and Collective Farm Girl, atop a globe on which the Soviet Union is outlined in red. A red flag was also planted at the center of the North Pole. Both the flag and the sculpture's location above the globe convey a sense of national triumph, while the sky behind the sculpture, a frequent image in the magazine's photomontages, signifies infinite possibilities for the Soviet Union. The opening photomontage establishes a rethorical frame for the issue whose intent is to extol the superiority of life in the Soviet Union as exemplified by the new Constitution. (Cf. Victor Margolin. The struggle for utopia : Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy. Chicago University Press, 1997 (p. 199). Papier manquant au dos du volume, quelques inévitables plis, petits manques aux coins, petites tâches, usures. Exemplaire en bon état, un manque au bas du dos, le poster de Lissitzky en très bon état. (Modernisme, modernism, avant-garde, graphic design, arts graphiques, photographie, photobook, mise en page). Seller Inventory # ABE-1554298814526

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Title: USSR IM BAU (L URSS EN CONSTRUCTION) - 1917-...

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