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The Paris of Ilja Ehrenburg knows no Louvre or Notre Dame and shows the Eiffel Tower crouching behind shabby facades and building timber. The Paris in which the Russian revolutionary lived from 1908 to 1940 was a place in which completely normal people with little money and hope struggled through life. Ehrenburg photographed them at their doors and in cafés, at work and at rest, in their poverty and dignity, and wrote brief texts that describe them. My Paris is an impressive work of photographic social reporting, presenting portraits of the elderly and the young, workers and outcasts, standing in stark contrast to the glamorous Paris of so many idealized representations and memories. Originally published in Moscow in 1933 with an exceptionally clear typographic treatment by El Lissitzky that lends a gentle rhythm to the book, Moi Parizh / My Paris is an extremely rare object, presented here anew as a reprint. Now back in print after 70 years, Paris as seen through the eyes of a Russian revolutionary artist Hardcover, 7.25 x 6.25 in./240 pgs / 0 color 125 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20429 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Print, published by RC Publications, Inc. on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1147 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946. (book reviews)
Author: Ellen Lupton
Publication: Print (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: RC Publications, Inc.
Volume: v51Issue: n5Page: p26(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on July 12, 1999. The length of the article is 848 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Proyectos para la afirmacin de lo nuevo".(Lasar M. Lissitzky, poeta Ruso)(TT: "Projects for the confirmation of the new".)(TA: Lasar M. Lissitzky, Russian poet)
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 12, 1999
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 62

Article Type: Biography

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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on March 22, 1998. The length of the article is 1157 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Struggle for utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy Nagy: 1917-1946.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Milka Bliznakov
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1998
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Page: 290(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from Print, published by RC Publications, Inc. on May 1, 2000. The length of the article is 978 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El Lissitzky: Beyond the Abstract Cabinet.(Review) (book review)
Author: Ellen Lupton
Publication: Print (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2000
Publisher: RC Publications, Inc.
Volume: 54Issue: 3Page: 40H

Article Type: Book Review

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This book is a facsimile of the original Russian first edition, which was published in 1922.

A masterpiece of ideological simplicity it presents El Lissitzky's political-didactic attempt to teach children mathematics using a puzzle in which the red square always overcomes the black. This is a prime example of where modern typography began. Lissitky's playful approach attracted the eye and made the viewer want to read.

As Max Bill commented, typography is a game that leads to communication, and it all began with Lissitzky's tale of two squares.

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