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El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet: Photography, Design, Collaboration

Collector Grade · C- Rarity · Common Deal · Fair Confidence · Medium
Hardcover with Dust Jacket hardcover English 240 pages 31.1 x 24.8 x 3.2 cm 1.81 kg

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Description

Exploring intersections of photography, design, and collaboration, the photographs in Beyond the Abstract Cabinet: Photography, Design, Collaboration reveal a confluence of visual strategies emblematic of early 20th-century avant-garde practices. The images investigate spatial relationships and abstraction while engaging with architectural and structural elements through innovative design principles.

Authored by El Lissitzky and published by Yale University Press in 1999, this 240-page work examines the role of collective creative processes in expanding photographic expression beyond purely representational aims. The approach raises questions about authorship, function, and the dialogue between photographic images and design objects within an interdisciplinary artistic context.