Artworks · El Lissitzky

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Ispaniia. !No Pasaran! (Spain! They Shall Not Pass!)

1937 · Printed book with letterpress and photolithography, embossing and collaged photograph

31 × 23.2 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Industry of Socialism (Industriia sotsializma)

1935 · Letterpress and gravure, complete set of 7 volumes in a slipcase

Each: 35 × 25.7 cm (13 13/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Slipcase: 36.7 × 27.5 × 5.5 cm (14 1/2 × 10 7/8 × 2 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Machine building - Key to Reconstructionfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.5 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Peasants on Tractor, USSR on Automobilefrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.4 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Industriia Sotsializma. Tiazhelaia Promyshlennost K VII Vsesoiuznomu S'Ezdy Sovetov (Industry of Socialism: Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets)

1935 · One of seven volumes

13 3/4 × 10 1/8 × 1/4" (35 × 25.7 × 0.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

This is Living People, This is us and youfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.4 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Bolsheviks Awaken the Natural Wealth of Countriesfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 1/2" (35.4 x 24.2 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Forward and beyond!from Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an llustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 3/4" (35.4 x 24.7 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

from Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume [folder] with two maps and a loose pamphlet from an illustrated book of seven volumes

sheet (pamphlet): 13 5/8 x 5 1/8" (34.6 x 13 cm); sheet (.a map): 35 7/16 x 25 3/16" (90 x 64 cm); sheet (.b map larger one): 24 1/16 x 35 3/4" (61.1 x 90.8 cm); overall (volume): 13 11/16 x 10" (34.8 x 25.4 cm)

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Industriia Sotsializma. Tiazhelaia Promyshlennost K VII Vsesoiuznomu S'Ezdy Sovetov (Industry of Socialism: Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets)

1935 · Seven volumes, quarto; gravure plates. An abundance of fold-outs, gate-folds, and accordion folds, collages, and cut-outs; printed on a variety of paper types. Six separately bound books in wrappers, each numbered one to six and with its own photographic images and embossed designs on the cover. One folder labeled "seven" with fold-out map laid in. Photographically illustrated canvas slipcase

original box, closed: 14 7/16 × 10 13/16 × 2 3/16" (36.7 × 27.5 × 5.5 cm)

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Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · Illustrated book, seven volumes

each volume: see child records; overall (case with seven volumes): 14 9/16 x 11" (37 x 28 cm)

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from Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

Museum of Modern Art

Bolsheviks Awaken the Natural Wealth of Countriesfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 1/2" (35.4 x 24.2 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Peasants on Tractor, USSR on Automobilefrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.4 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

This is Living People, This is us and youfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.4 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The New Face of USSRfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an Illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 7/8 x 9 9/16" (35.3 x 24.3 cm); overall: 13 7/8 x 10 1/4" (35.3 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Machine building - Key to Reconstructionfrom Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an illustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 5/8" (35.4 x 24.5 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Forward and beyond!from Industry of Socialism. Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets

1935 · One volume from an llustrated book of seven volumes

page (each approx.): 13 15/16 x 9 3/4" (35.4 x 24.7 cm); overall: 13 15/16 x 10 1/4" (35.4 x 26.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Arkhitektura SSSR

1934

Page: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4" (29.8 x 22.2 cm)

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Raboche-Krest'ianskaia Krasnaia Armiia (Worker-Peasant Red Army)

1934 · Book with letterpress text and letterpress and photogravure illustrations

page: 11 5/8 x 13 3/8" (29.6 x 34 cm)

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SSSR stroit sotsializm (USSR Builds Socialism)

1933 · Album illustrated with photomontages and decorated cloth-backed cream boards

34 × 26.5 × 2.3 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/16 × 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tekhnicheskaia propaganda

1933 · Book

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SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen 15 letiiu krasnoi armii (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: Fifteen Years of the Red Army), no. 2

1933 · Journal, photogravure printed

page (each approx.): 16 5/16 × 11 5/8" (41.5 × 29.6 cm); overall (closed): 16 5/16 × 11 11/16 × 3/16" (41.5 × 29.7 × 0.4 cm)

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SSSR stroit sotsializm

1933

Page: 13 5/16 x 9 13/16" (33.8 x 25 cm)

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Arkhitektura sovremennogo Zapada (Western Architecture Today)

1932 · Illustrated book with gilt lettered blue cloth cover, decorated title-page and photomontages

27 × 19.5 × 1 cm (10 5/8 × 7 3/4 × 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen Dnepostroi (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: On Dnepostroi), no. 10

1932 · Journal

page (each approx.): 16 5/16 × 11 7/8" (41.4 × 30.2 cm); overall (closed): 16 5/16 × 11 7/8 × 1/8" (41.5 × 30.2 × 0.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Brigada khudozhnikov (Artist's Brigade)

1931 · Printed book with color photomontage wrappers

31.5 × 22.6 cm (12 3/8 × 8 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The USSR in Construction (SSSR na stroike)

1930 · Photogravure and lithograph, 47 issues

41.4 × 29.8 cm (16 5/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frankreich. Die Entwicklung der neuen Ideen nach Konstruktion und Form (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 3.) (France. The Development of New Ideas of Construction and Form [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 3)

1930 · Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed

page: 11 7/16 x 8 7/8" (29 x 22.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Russland. Die Rekonstruktion der Architektur in der Sowjetunion (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 1) (Russia. The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 1)

1930 · Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed

page: 11 5/16 x 8 7/16" (28.8 x 21.5 cm)

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Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den Vereinigten Staaten (Neues Bauen in der Welt) (America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States [New Ways of Building in the World]), vol. 2

1930 · Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed

page (each): 11 7/16 x 8 3/4" (29 x 22.3 cm); overall (closed): 11 7/16 x 8 15/16 x 3/8" (29 x 22.7 x 1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

USSR, auf der internationalen Pelzfach Ausstellung, Staatenhalle Leipzig

1930 · Letterpress

11 5/8 x 8 1/8" (29.6 x 20.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cover for foto-auge/oeil et photo/photo-eye

1929 · Letterpress

29.5 × 20.7 cm (11 5/8 × 8 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

USSR: Russian Exhibition

1929 · Color offset lithograph on ivory wove paper

Sight: 112.2 × 87.5 cm (44 3/16 × 34 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cover study for Russia: Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union (New Ways of Building in the World)

1929 · Gelatin silver print

10 1/2 × 7 13/16" (26.7 × 19.8 cm)

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Cover study for America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States (New Ways of Building in the World)

1929 · Gelatin silver print

10 1/4 × 7 5/8" (26 × 19.4 cm)

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Zhurnalist, no. 1

1929 · Wraparound cover with letterpress lettering and typographic design by Lissitzky

page: 11 3/4 x 8 15/16" (29.9 x 22.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Stroitel'stvo Moskvy. Ezhemesiachnyi zhurnal Moskovskogo oblastnogo ispolnitel'nogo komiteta Soveta R., K. i K. deputatov, no. 5 (Building Moscow: Monthly Journal of The Moscow Soviet of Workers, Peasants, and Red Army Deputies, no. 5)

1929 · Book with photomontage reproductions

page: 11 7/8 x 9 1/16" (30.1 x 23 cm); book: 11 7/8 x 9 1/16 x 3/16" (30.1 x 23 x 0.4 cm)

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USSR Russische Ausstellung

1929 · Gravure

49 x 35 1/4" (124.5 x 89.5 cm)

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USSR Russische Ausstellung

1929 · Gravure

49 7/8 x 35 5/8" (126.7 x 90.5 cm)

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Zapiski poeta (Notes of a Poet)

1928 · Printed book with two-color photomontage wrappers

17.2 × 12.6 cm (6 13/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Catalogue of the Soviet Pavilion at the International Press Exhibition, Cologne ("Pressa") [Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken: Katalog des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Ausstellung, Köln ("Pressa")

1928 · Letterpress with gravure centerfold insert

21 × 15.2 cm (8 5/16 × 6 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Figurine by Mikhail Plaskin for the Soviet Pavilion in the section "Die Frau und die Presse"

1928 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 15.4 × 10.8 cm (6 1/8 × 4 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema

1928

Page: 8 3/16 x 5 3/8" (20.8 x 13.7 cm)

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Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken: Pressa Köln (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics)

1928 · Book, letterpress printed

page (each): 11 1/4 x 8 3/8" (28.5 x 21.2 cm)

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Zapiski poeta. Povest' (Notes of a Poet: A Tale)

1928 · Book with letterpress cover

page (each): 6 11/16 x 4 3/4" (17 x 12.1 cm)

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Katalog des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Austellung, Köln 1928 (Catalogue of the Soviet Pavilion at the International Pressa Exhibition, Cologne 1928)

1928 · Illustrated book with photogravure illustrations

page: 8 1/8 x 5 1/8" (20.7 x 13 cm)

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Vseso︠i︡uzna︠i︡a poligraficheska︠i︡a vystavka : putevoditelʹ (All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition: Guidebook)

1927 · Illustrated book with two color lithograph wrappers

17.5 × 13 × 1.2 cm (6 15/16 × 5 1/8 × 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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