In contrast to the old monumental art [the book] itself goes to the people, and does not stand like a cathedral in one place waiting for someone to a… - El Lissitzky

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In contrast to the old monumental art [the book] itself goes to the people, and does not stand like a cathedral in one place waiting for someone to approach.. ..[The book is the] monument of the future. (c. 1930)

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About El Lissitzky

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky [Лазарь Маркович Лисицкий] (November 23, 1890 – December 30, 1941), more famous as El Lissitzky [Эль Лисицкий], was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect. He was an active protagonist of Russian Constructivism.

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Native Name: Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий
Alternative Names: El' Lisickij Ėlʹ Lisit︠s︡kiĭ El Lissickij Eliezer Markovich Lissitzky Lasar Lissitzky Eliezer Lissitsky Lazar Markovich Lissitzky Lazar Markovich Lisitskii El Lazar Lissitzky Lazarʹ Markovich Lisit︠s︡kiĭ Lazar Markovich Lisi︡tskiĭ Lazar Markovich Lisitsky Eliezer Lissitzky Eliʻezer Lisitsḳi El Lissitsky Lazar Lissitzky E. M. Lissitsky El Lisitsḳi Eleazar Markovich Lissitzky El Lisitsky Eleazar M. Lissitzky Lasar Markowitsch Lissitzky Eliezer Lisitski Eliezer Lisitsky Lazarʼ Markovič Lisickij E. Lisitsḳi Lazar Markovich Lisitski Lazar Markovich Lisitzky Lasar Morduchovich Lissitsky Lissitzky
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It proved to be essential to clear the site for the new building. This idea was a forerunner of futurism which exposed the relentless nature of its motivating power. Revolutions had started undercover, everything grew more complicated. Painting economical in its creative output was still very complicated and uneconomical in its expression. cubism and futurism seized upon the purity of form treatment and colour and built a complicated and extensive system with them combining them without any regard for harmony. The rebuilding of life cast aside the old concept of nations classes patriotism and imperialism which had been completely discredited.

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..into this chaos [after the Bolshevik' revolution] came suprematism extolling the square [referring to the Squares of Malevich] as the very source of all creative expression, and then came communism and extolled work as the true source of man's heartbeat.

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