About two squares : in 6 constructions : a suprematist tale
著者
書誌事項
About two squares : in 6 constructions : a suprematist tale
MIT Press, 1991
- タイトル別名
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Pro dva kvadrata
Suprematicheskii skaz
About 2 squares
About two two squares
Suprematist tale
More about 2 squares
More about two squares
- 統一タイトル
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Pro dva kvadrata
大学図書館所蔵 全6件
注記
First MIT Press ed.
On t.p.: "two" in the title appears twice
Tissue overleaves in English position translation upon facsimile of original Russian text
Issued in a case
Accompanied by: More about two squares / Patricia Railing. 52 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
"A facsimile reprint of the original edition of Spring 1922, published in Berlin by Scythian Press, with English translation by Christiana Van Manen"--Colophon
Facsim.of: Suprematicheskii Skaz. Berlin: Skify, 1922.
内容説明・目次
内容説明
El Lissitzky's first suprematist book is a story about how two squares, one red, one black, transform a world. It is Lissitzky's "scientific romance," an allegory of the fourth dimension and its effect on the three-dimensional world. When it was first published in Berlin in 1922, "About 2 Squares" presented a radical rethinking of what a book was, demonstrating a new way of organizing typography on a page and relating it to visual images. It marked the beginning of a new graphic art and is among the most important publications in the history of the avant-garde in typography and graphic design.This facsimile limited edition is reproduced in letterpress with the English translation printed on a transparent overlay to register over the original Russian.The commentary, "More About 2 Squares," boxed in the same slipcase, provides a detailed analysis of this seminal work. Railing provides a brief historical survey of avant-garde poetry in Russia and shows how the letter/ sound was applied by Lissitzky in "About 2 Squares" as a corollary to the pictorial images - a relationship that forms the basis of abstract or nonobjective language and painting in Russia, and is the theoretical and creative source and device of Lissitzky's graphic design. Railing's is a study both of the philosophical idea of suprematism and the artistic content of Lissitzky's architectural extension of the suprematist painting of Kazimir Malevich, which he called the Proun, and of its particular role as a sequence of images used to create the story "About 2 Squares."
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