Bidspirit auction | Russian Avant-Garde. El Lissitzky. Film

Russian Avant-Garde. El Lissitzky. Film of Life. 1890-1941. by A. Kantsedikas, V. Yargina, Ex. 1/30, 7 issues, complete, 2002. Layout of the future edition, in Box, in Russian - Russian Avant-Garde. El Lissitzky. Film of Life. 1890-1941. by A. Kantsedikas, V. Yargina, Ex. 1/30, 7 issues. complete, 2002. Layout of the future edition, in Box, in Russian Printed as a manuscript in an edition of 10 personalized and 20 numbered copies at the expense of the authors with the cooperation and financial support of the El Lissitzky Center in Novosibirsk (Director Sergei Lissitzky) With numerous corrections by the authors Issue 1. 43 p., 43 ill. Issue 2. 53 p., 59 ill., Issue 3. 53 p., 59 ill. Issue 4. 49 p., 84 ill. Issue 5. 45 p., 54 ill. Issue 6. 171 p., ill. Issue 7. 164 p., ill. Soft cover, Size: 26 x 21 cm., size of box: 28 x 21.5 x 7.9 cm. Total weight: 3500 gr. Condition: light wear, some rubbing and staining to box; good condition. In seven publisher's covers, in a case. A draft of the publication that was not put on sale, prepared in 30 copies. The first monograph in Russian dedicated to the life and work of the outstanding artist El Lissitzky. All parts of the publication are built according to the same scheme: a detailed chronology with expanded quotations from key documents and modern research; notes to the chronology; an article explaining the meaning and significance of this period; notes to the article; color reproductions of all surviving works of this period A unique seven-volume epic ”El Lissitzky. Film of Life. 1890-1941” It was created by art critic Alexander Kantsedikas and his wife, architect Zoya Yargina. This is the first monograph on the world-famous Russian avant-garde artist in Russian. Five volumes of meticulous creative biography, each with an album section, where, according to the authors, 90% of everything Lissitzky did is published, with 15-20% of this number published for the first time. Plus a volume with analytical tables - this is a kind of ”art history comics”, which can be used to trace how individual themes and motifs developed in Lissitzky's art. Plus a volume that contains everything that Lissitzky himself wrote” contains all of his ”theoretical and art history works by Lissitzky (with the exception of separately published books) - articles, reports, transcripts of speeches. Many of them were previously not available to Russian-speaking readers, some are published for the first time.” - says Alexander Kantsedikas in an interview.