SSSR Stroit Sotsializm. USSR baut den Sozialismus. URSS construit le Socialisme. USSR builds the Socialism
El LISSITZKY. SSSR Stroit Sotzializm. [USSR Builds the Socialism]. xxvi, 282, [4] pp., illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, 337 x 250 mm., bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards. Moscow: Izozis, 1933.
A spectacular example of Lissitzky's skill as a bookmaker, and one of the finest examples of the Soviet propaganda photobook. It was, in fact, his first propaganda album. This hymn to the Soviet state was assembled by Lissitzky making photomontages from the photographs of unidentified photographers. The endpapers reproduce the phrase "Workers of the World Unite" in 32 languages.Despite the immense edition of 25,000 copies, few copies seem to have survived. Covers with some staining, overall a very good copy.
Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Russian Book Art 69. Parr, The Photobook Vol. 1, 155. Karasik and Heiting. The Soviet Photobook pp. 190-195
Item nr. 169455
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$9,750.00