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Lissitzky, El--Malevich, Kazimir.
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Description
- O novykh sistemakh v iskusstve. Statika i skorost’ [On new systems in art: statics and speed]. Vitebsk: Artel’ khudozhestvennogo truda pri Vitsvomas, 1919
8vo (229 x 175mm.), [limited to 1000 copies], lithographed throughout with manuscript text, 3 plates and a 3-part pictorial structure of Cubism by Malevich, original upper wrapper comprising text and illustrations by Lissitzky, plates (originally loose) attached at front, new staple, upper wrapper laid down, lower wrapper in facsimile
Literature
Hellyer 369; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 236
Catalogue Note
Lissitzky designed the covers and supervised the design and production of the entire book in his students’ workshop at the Vitebsk Popular Art Institute. The manuscript text is interspersed with Suprematist squares, rectangles and circles. This extremely important work was Malevich’s first major published piece in which he explains the principles behind his innovations in art.