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El Lissitzky: Architect of the Russian Avant-Garde |
| Section: THE ARTS / ARCHITECTURE |
| Author: Jeannine Fielder and Louis Kaplan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,058 Words, 6,905 Characters |
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Recognition of the Russian avant-garde as an integral and vital part of western European artistic and architectural innovation has grown exponentially with the onset of glasnost. El Lissitzky (1890-1941): Architect, Painter, Photographer, Typographer, the current centennial exhibition celebrating the career of Russian-born architect Eliezar Lissitzky, was organized and first shown by the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. A quick leap back over decades of sterile Socialist Realism lets us rediscover the vibrant, abstract universe of a non-Euclidean master geometrician of form.
Lissitzky acted as a cultural liaison between the artists of the Soviet revolution and the avant-garde of central Europe in the 1920s. He worked on various projects, for a time in Germany, Switzerland, Holland, and F...
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...aesthetic ornament for a standard apartment building located in Rotterdam wherein all the political implications of the former have been dropped in favor of a nice view. The replication of spatial diagonals is not enough to constitute an architectural heritage, nor even to establish a red thread with a socialist utopian who called for a "remodelling of the whole material environment of life."
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