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El Lissitzky, [title page] 1923
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After an exhibition in Hanover in 1923, El Lissitzky was commissioned to make some prints. Among these was a series of ten figures, based on watercolours he had made for the avant-garde opera 'Victory over the Sun'. The opera was originally created by the playwright Alexei Kruchenykh, Kasimir Malevich and the composer Mikhail Matyushin in 1913. The sun is replaced as a source of energy by technological supremacy. In 1920 it was revived as a piece of mechanical theatre in Vitebsk, where both Malevich and El Lissitzky taught… (read more)
August 2004
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