Die Kunstismen.
by El Lissitzky.; Arp, Hans
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
1925. EL LISSITZKY and Hans ARP. Die Kunstismen / Les Ismes de l'Art / The Isms of Art, 1914 - 1924. xi, 48 pp., illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions. 4to, 257 x 195 mm., bound in original colour-printed paper over boards, in a new cloth folding box. Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1925. First edition, with definitions of the early 20th-century art movements (the "isms") in German, French, and English, and illustrated by reproductions of representative artworks. The striking cover and constructivist layout were designed by Lissitzky. An unusually fine copy of a book which is almost never found with the original spine intact, as here. With a four-page publisher's advertisement for this and other titles laid in front. Municipal Van Abbemuseum, El Lissitzky 215.
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- Bookseller
- Ursus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 171536
- Title
- Die Kunstismen.
- Author
- El Lissitzky.; Arp, Hans
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1925
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