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Pro dva kvadrata : suprematicheskiĭ skaz : v 6-ti postroĭkakh

Title: Pro dva kvadrata : suprematicheskiĭ skaz : v 6-ti postroĭkakh / Ėl Lisi︠t︡skiĭ.
Author: Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941.
Publication: Berlin : Skify, 1922

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	MCZ L772.ALP	Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Ger. 1922 93-38	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

Description

[9] leaves : chiefly ill.; 29 cm.

Alternative Title

Genre/Form

Letter-pictures.

Note

"P︠i︡atʹdes︠i︡at ėkzempl︠i︡arov ėtogo izdani︠i︡a imennye i numerovannye"--Leaf [9]v. This copy not numbered or signed.
On title page, the words "suprematicheskiĭ skaz" precede other elements of title.
Title on cover: Pro 2 [kvadrata]. Last word is a graphic representation of a square.
Imprint in German in colophon: "Verlag 'Skythen,' Berlin ... Druck von E. Haberland, Leipzig."
"Postroeno 1920 Vitebsk"--Leaf [9]r, under device with red square and word "Unovis" (art school in Vitebsk).
Leaves [2] and [9] printed on both sides.
Text and ill. printed letterpress in black, gray and red. Each leaf is a graphic/typographic design, chiefly consisting of a reproduction of a drawing within square border above a "dynamically" arranged legend. For detailed discussion, cf. More about two squares / Patricia Railing. 1991. (Issued to accompany facsimile reproduction; cf. below.) Cf. also: Compton, S.P. The world backwards, p. 114; The look of Russian literature / Gerald Janecek. c1984, p. 203.
Facsimile reproduction with English translation published under title: About two squares : in 6 constructions : a suprematist tale. 1991.
Issued in illustrated paper covers, wire-stitched.

Indexed In (note)

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 1922 93-38

OCLC

NYPG93-B8836

Author

Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941.

Title

Pro dva kvadrata : suprematicheskiĭ skaz : v 6-ti postroĭkakh / Ėl Lisi︠t︡skiĭ.

Imprint

Berlin : Skify, 1922 (V Leĭp︠t︡sige : V Tipografii Gaberlanda)

Local Note

Library has facsimile reproduction in 3-MCZ L772 92-7935 and MCZ L772.ALP..

Indexed In:

Ex Libris (Firm). Constructivism & futurism, 156

Local Note

Provenance: Piet Zwart (presentation inscription from Jan Tschichold, Basel, Sept. 5, 1937).

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Zwart, Piet, 1885- former owner.

Tschichold, Jan, 1902-1974, former owner.

Added Title

Pro 2 kvadrata.

Suprematicheskiĭ skaz.

Suprematicheskiĭ skaz pro dva kvadrata v 6-ti postroĭkakh.

Pro dva kvadrata v 6-ti postroĭkakh : suprematicheskiĭ skaz.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 1922 93-38