El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet, Margarita Tupitsyn, 1999, HC, NF.

Tupitsyn, Margarita, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

English, Near Fine HC, 4to, 12" x 9 3/4", [5] 239 pp. 

ISBN: 0300081707

Red cloth over board, stamped black lettering to spine, slight cocking to spine, light sunning to edges of text block, otherwise, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, dust jacket and endpapers. Near Fine pictorial white dust jacket, featuring El Lissitzky's 1924 photomontage "Self-Portrait (Constructor)" to front panel, 1939 collaborative work with Alekandr Grigorovich and Mikhail V. Nikolaev "USSR: An Album Illustrating the State Organization and National Economy of the USSR" to back panel, black lettering to front, back panels, spine, and interior flaps, light soiling and shelf wear to front and back panels, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar-sleeve. [5] 239 pp., replete with black-and-white and full-color images and photographs. Includes Foreword and essay "El Lissitzky's Exhibition Designs: The Influence of His Work in Germany, Italy, and the United States, 1923-1943" by Ulrich Pohlmann, essay, essay "El Lissitzky in Germany, 1922-1925" by Matthew Drutt, essay "Back to Moscow" by Margarita Tupitsyn, Plates, Archive, El Lissitzsky's Letters, Chronology, Bibliography, and Catalogue. Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition of Lazar Markovich Lissitzsky (1890-1941) or El Lissitzsky's work  at  the Sprenggel Museum Hannover. From inside the dust jacket: "This book documents for the first time his explorations of photography, photomontage, and graphic and exhibition design during that decade and throughout the 1930s. Both the political and aesthetic aspects of Lissitzky's multi-media work are analyzed, from the photographic experiments that preceded the Abstract Cabinet  of 1927 to his involvement with Soviet propaganda publications shortly before his death in 1941. "