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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Form. No.3/Dec / Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, Stephen Bann, editors ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Finlay IH ; Jandl E ; Schwitters K ; Bann S ; DeVree P., 1966

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Identifier: CC-11415-11631
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El Lissitzky describes his theatrical plans for "The Electrical-Mechanical Spectacle." It was published as a folio of ten colored lithographs which were used by Mayakovsky in "For Reading Out Loud." The Spectacle used the music from "Victory Over the Sun" by Krutchyck with sets by Malevich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Print: Including Digital Design & Illustration Annual 7. No.4/Jul-Aug / Newell P ; Heller S ; Spiegelman A ; Lissitzky E ; Finlay IH ; Kindersley R ; Stirling A ; Harvey M ; Sloan N., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33037-34659
Scope and Contents

Ellen Shapiro contirbuted an essay, "Posterity's Yiddishkeit," dealing with the Yiddish Book Center. In it, she mentions and reproduces the cover of a facsimile edition of El Lissitzky's "Yingle Tsingl Khvat." The Sackner Archive holds the second edition of this book published in Warsaw. It is a children's story in verse about a boy named Tsingl Dhvat who brought winter to his village. Juanita Dugdale writes about the English craft of lettercutting in stone and mentions the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. This issue features a large section that reproduces computer screens on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999