El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet Michael Halsband in mourning clothes

in mourning clothes

” — artist statement

First edition second impression from 1959 in near fine condition

including a copy of Shirley Tauszik’s obituary and an interview with Lowell Tauszik in which father and son discuss the legacies of mental illness and abandonment

This book presents approximately 120 of these striking images as well as previously unpublished archival material that sheds important light on the artist and his work

El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet Michael Halsband in mourning clothesFirst edition of El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet by Margarita Tupitsyn. First impression. Medium format hardback in fine condition. Some very minor shelf wear to the top edge of the dust jacket only. About This work explores both the political and aesthetic aspects of Lissitzky's late multimedia work, from his designs for the Abstract Cabinet to his death in 1941. Attention is given to his collaboration with German and Soviet photographers,