Dec 09, 2010 - Sale 2233

Sale 2233 - Lot 313

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
(LISSITZKY, EL.)
URSS en Construction, No. 8.

La Dix-Huitème Année de la Révolution. Illustrated with bold reproductions of nationalistic photographs, employing photomontage, graphic overlay and striking color. Folio, printed pictorial stapled wrappers; in a custom clamshell box. Parr/Badger I 148. first french edition.
(Moscow): Oghis-Isoghis, Août 1935

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Aimed at an international audience, USSR in Construction employed the best designers and photographers, including Max Alpert, Georgi Zeima, Georgi Shaikhet, El Lissitzky, Sophie Kuppers and Alexander Rodchenko. The prototype for many propagandist publications to come, this publication employed, by Stalin's decree, photography as a purveyor of truth, and as a means of disseminating the Soviet state narrative.