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El Lissitzky A Film of The Life
This film was produced by the Lissitzky Center, Novosibirsk in 2003.
The movie was directed by Alexandra Arkhipova and commented by her and Dr.Alexander Kantsedikas. Additional support was provided by Sergey Lissitzky and Tamara Lissitzky.
El Lissitzky was the Russian avant-garde’s unofficial emissary to the West, traveling and lecturing extensively on behalf of Russia’s modern artists who believed that abstraction was a harbinger of utopian social values. Basing himself in Berlin and Hanover in the 1920s, Lissitzky helped produce publications and organize exhibitions promoting both Russian and Western art that shared a common vision of aesthetics steeped in technology, mass production, and social transformation.
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