MONTAGE AND MODERN LIFE 1919-1942

Maud Lavin
Annette Michelson
Christopher Phillips
Sally Stein
Matthew Teitelbaum
Margarita Tupitsyn

Maud Lavin; Annette Michelson; Christopher Phillips; Sally Stein; Matthew Teitelbaum, Margarita Tupitsyn: MONTAGE AND MODERN LIFE 1919-1942. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1992. First edition. A fine hardcover book in a fine dust jacket: an exceptional copy. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print and surprisingly uncommon in the hardcover first edition.

8.25 x 10.25 hardcover book with 208 pages and 115 b/w illustrations. Edited by Teitelbaum. Essays by Maud Lavin, Annette Michelson, Margarita Tupitsyn and Sally Stein. Introduction by Christopher Phillips. All of the writers co-curated the accompanying exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Selected bibliography. Exhibition checklist.

This book conveys the enormous social, political, and aesthetic i impact of montage and its pivotal role in the establishment of what we now know as the "mass media." Included here are examples of photographs, advertising, documentary films, journals, architectural and exhibition designs, posters, and rare archival materials from Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States.

Included are four essays:

• Utopianism In The Circle Of New Advertising Designers
• Montage & The Theory Of The Interval
• Soviet Practice 1919-1937
• American Resistance To Photomontage Between The Wars

ARTISTS INCLUDE: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walker Evans, Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield, Paul Citroen, Piet Zwart, Herbert Bayer, Willi Baumeister, Heinz and Bodo Rasch, Max Burchatz, Jan Tschichold, Paul Schuitema, Gustav Klutsis, Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Nikolai Prusakov, Charles Sheeler and others.

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