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The Spectacle Machinery
Artist: El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890-1941)
Date: 1923
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 7/8 x 17 15/16 in. (53.1 x 45.5 cm)
Medium: Color lithograph
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1981.7
Label Text:El Lissitzky, after coming under the influence of Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism, developed Proun (Project for the Affirmation of the New), "an interchange station between painting and architecture," a new abstract language that would be universally understood. Lissitzky employed his Proun style in his 1920-21 designs for a never-realized electro-mechanical staging with puppets of the 1913 opera "Victory over the Sun." His images - here, four of the puppet characters performing on the mechanized scenery - evoke towering structures, magical levitation, and the imminent triumph of technology.
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