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THAMES. AND HUDSO

EL LISSITZKY STUDIES IN ART,
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
SOPlllE LISSITZKY-KUPPERS
Vol I: From Mannerism to
INTRODUCTION BY HERBERT READ
The first full-length study of Lissitzky, compiled by Romanticism
his widow, opens with a biographical section, largely Vol 11: Victorian and After
based on his letters. It is followed by the plates,
theoretical writings by Lissitzky himself and accounts NIKOLAUS PEVSNER
by his contemporaries and by later critics. Professor Pevsner has long been recognized as a
With 278 plates, roo in colour, 5 diagrp.ms, £8 8s scholar of the greatest possible stature, yet much of his
most stimulating, original and seminal work on
INTO THE TWENTIES: subjects ranging from Italian baroque painting t9
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Style and Design I 909-1929 in unobtainable periodicals. In these two voh.unes
twenty-eight essays, which he considers his most
GIULIA VERONESI important, are republished with new illustrations
This entertaining study of the arts during a period A HISTORY OF WESTERN ART and in many cases additional up·-to-date material.
when decoration was worshipped for its own sake, is Vol I: with 267 illustrations; Vol II: with 5 17
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