Die Kunstismen: (The Isms of Art)

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