Vesc Objet Gegenstand Cover

El Lissitzky and Ilja Ehrenburg (eds.)

Vesc/Objet/Gegenstand

Although it lasted for only two issues and was written mostly in Russian, the Russian Emigrant magazine “Vešč” exercised an enormous influence on other periodicals of that time. Today, the avant-garde art journal is considered a modernist landmark. Now, for the first time, the extraordinary contents of this short-lived magazine are made accessible in annotated translations and summaries.

This portfolio slipcase includes original reprints of the two issues of “Vešč’ Objet Gegenstand” from March/April and May 1922, edited by El Lissitzky and Ilja Ehrenburg with contents designed by El Lissitzky. A third volume features a commentary and translations in both German and English.

Although it lasted for only two issues and was written mostly in Russian, the Russian Emigrant magazine “Vešč” exercised an enormous influence on other periodicals of that time. Today, the avant-garde art journal is considered a modernist landmark. Now, for the first time, the extraordinary contents of this short-lived magazine are made accessible in annotated translations and summaries.

This portfolio slipcase includes original reprints of the two issues of “Vešč’ Objet Gegenstand” from March/April and May 1922, edited by El Lissitzky and Ilja Ehrenburg with contents designed by El Lissitzky. A third volume features a commentary and translations in both German and English.

Edited by El Lissitzky and Ilja Ehrenburg, Berlin, 1922

With contributions by Roland Nachtigäller, Hubertus Gassner, Rita Frommenwiler

25 × 34 cm, 9 ¾ × 13 ¼ in

82 illustrations

Special Edition: 2 booklets, 1 commentary (144 pages)

1993, 978-3-906700-62-5, German
English
Design History XX The Century of Print
CHF 850.00

Ilya Ehrenburg

Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) was a Russian journalist, writer, and historian. With around one hundred published titles, he is one of the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s, Ehrenburg moved to Paris and later Berlin, where he published the magazine Vešč/Objet/Gegenstand together with El Lissitzky.

El Lissitzky

El Lissitziky (1890-1941) was a Russian architect and painter, who from 1919/20 onwards was involved with Suprematism. Between 1919 and 1927 he produced a large body of paintings, prints, and drawings that he referred to by the word Proun, an acronym for "project for the affirmation of the new" in Russian. The term Proun was conceived by Lissitzky in 1919 specifically to signify his turn to non-objective art. Lissitzky’s versatile body of work includes poster and theater set design, typography, and architecture. It reflects his training as an architect in Germany before World War I as well as the inspiration of Kazimir Malevich, a fellow teacher at the Vitebsk art school.

CHF 850.00