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Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941

 Person

Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:

The 20th Century Poster: Design of the Avant-Garde / Dawn Ades, editor ; Mildred Friedman, editor ; Lissitzky E ; Schwitters K ; VanDoesburg T ; Huszar V ; Zwart P ; Malevich K ; Zdanevich I ; Law A ; Brown R ; Mayer HJ ; Depero F ; Duchamp M ; Ben., 1984

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Identifier: CC-26041-26503
Scope and Contents

El Lissitzky's poster "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" pictured on page 11 is same design as the poster held in the Sackner Archive. The poster reproduced but not displayed in the exhibition, is from the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The core of this exhibition of posters originates from the collection of Merrill C. Berman who also provides an interview with Alma Law on collecting such works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Art of the Word / Heller, Steven; Phillips T; Lissitzky E; Mayakovsky V; Weiner L; Holzer J; Kruger B., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50454-71522
Scope and Contents

Heller includes the book "Art and Text" in his review article. In this book, Tom Phillips is described as"a pioneer of text art." His painting Here We Exemplify, held by the Sackner Archive, is depicted in this book as are pages from "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009