Product Description
Situating El Lissitzky reassesses the complex career of one of the most influential yet controversial experimental artists of the early twentieth century. A prolific painter, designer, architect, and photographer, El Lissitzky (1890-1941) worked with the Soviet and the European artistic avant-gardes in the 1920s and as a propagandist for the Stalinist regime in the following decade.
About the Author
Nancy Perloff is collections curator of modern and new media collections at the Getty Research Institute.
Brian Reed is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle.