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First-ever facsimile edition of Hans Arp and El Lissitzky's iconic survey of avant-garde movements. With art history's notorious “isms” as its protagonists, the facsimile of this 1920s publication brings back a pioneering and original take on avant-garde art. Published as a trilingual English, French and German edition, the work is considered a seminal polemic on early twentieth-century art by two key figures of the time. Carefully put together by Hans Arp and El Lissitzky, CDie Kunstismen illustrates the diversity of modern art movements from 1914 to 1924, using paintings, sculptures and drawings by a range of inter-national artists to represent eachism. Lissitzky's exceptional graphic design epitomizes the new approach to art and sets the scene for the movements and accompanying artworks. 75 illustrations

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HANS PETER WILHELM ARP, also JEAN ARP (1886–1966) was a French-German painter, graphic artist, sculptor and lyricist. Arp moved in the artistic circles of the constructivists and the Paris surrealists, co-founding Dadaism in Zurich in 1916 as a literary and artistic movement in response to World War I and against its social conventions. He worked closely with his wife Sophie Taeuber-Arp and at times with other artists. EL LISSITZKY (1890–1941) was a Russian architect and painter, who from 1919/20 onward was involved with suprematism. Between 1919 and 1927 he produced a large body of paintings, prints and drawings that he referred to by the word Proun, an acronym for “project for the affirmation of the new” in Russian. Lissitzky’s versatile body of work includes poster and theater set design, typography and architecture.

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