Artworks · El Lissitzky

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

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

Museum of Modern Art

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)

Museum of Modern Art

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

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

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)

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 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)

Museum of Modern Art

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)

Museum of Modern Art

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)

Museum of Modern Art

USSR Russische Ausstellung

1929 · Gravure

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

Museum of Modern Art

USSR Russische Ausstellung

1929 · Gravure

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

Museum of Modern Art

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

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)

Museum of Modern Art

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)

Museum of Modern Art

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)

Museum of Modern Art

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

Arkhitektura VKhUTEMAS. Raboty arkhitekturnogo fakul'teta VKhUTEMASa, 1920-1927 (Architecture of VKhUTEMAS: The Works of the Department of Architecture, 1920-1927)

1927 · Book with letterpress illustration (cover)

page: 9 9/16 x 6 5/16" (24.3 x 16 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem)

1927 · Book, letterpress printed

page: 8 1/8 x 5 3/8" (20.6 x 13.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem)

1927 · Book, letterpress printed

page (each): 8 1/8 x 5 3/8" (20.6 x 13.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Invitation to the All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition

1927 · Letterpress

sheet (folded): 4 3/8 × 5 3/8" (11.1 × 13.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"Khorosho! Oktyabrskaya poema" by Vladimir Mayakovsky

1927 · Letterpress

8 3/8 x 11 5/8" (21.3 x 29.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Record

1926 · Gelatin silver print

10 1/2 × 8 13/16" (26.7 × 22.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Izvestiia ASNOVA

1926 · Letterpress

13 15/16 x 10 1/2" (35.5 x 26.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Kunstismus, 1914–1924 (The Isms of Art 1914–1924)

1925 · Book, letterpress printed

page (each): 10 1/8 x 7 11/16" (25.7 x 19.5 cm); overall (closed): 10 5/16 x 8 1/8 x 1/4" (26.2 x 20.6 x 0.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait

1924 · Gelatin silver print

5 1/2 × 3 1/2" (13.9 × 8.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Kurt Schwitters

1924 · Gelatin silver print

4 1/4 × 3 7/8" (10.8 × 9.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

N²ATUR + T²ECHNIK + K²UNST = √-1 = i

1924 · Gelatin silver print with black ink

6 1/4 × 4 7/16" (15.8 × 11.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1924 · Gelatin silver print

6 1/4 × 4 5/8" (16.1 × 11.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Packaging for Pelikan Sealing Wax (Siegellack Pelikan)

1924 · Letterpress

4 3/8 x 13 3/4" (11.1 x 34.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

10. New Man

1923 · Lithograph on paper

image: 510 x 430 mm

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7. Troublemaker

1923 · Lithograph on paper

image: 512 x 428 mm

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9. Gravediggers

1923 · Lithograph on paper

image: 510 x 431 mm

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8. Old Man (Head 2 Steps behind)

1923 · Lithograph on paper

image: 510 x 430 mm

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5. Globetrotter (in Time)

1923 · Lithograph on paper

image: 510 x 430 mm

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6. Sportsmen

1923 · Lithograph on paper

image: 510 x 430 mm

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4. Anxious People

1923 · Lithograph on paper

image: 512 x 430 mm

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