The exhibitions of El Lissitzky through Cine-Eye

Luz Paz-Agras
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/vlc.2017.6987

Abstract

The Avant-Garde movements of the twentieth century explored the creative possibilities of new types of media in architecture, such as the photographic camera or cinema. In a series of experimental projects, authors such as El Lissitzky based their work on assimilating the human eye with a mechanical lens, making it possible to create new concepts of space. A simultaneous consideration of the resources of Vertov’s Cine-Eye in relation to the exhibition projects of El Lissitzky reveals some of his proposals as paradigmatic examples of the perceptive experimentation of the viewer in relation to art, and in a wider sense, to architecture. By analysing the cinematic resources of the film Man with a Movie Camera (1929), architectural aspects are analysed in the exhibition spaces of the Abstract Cabinet and PRESSA, identifying connections that break down the boundaries between the different disciplines.

Keywords

El Lissitzky; Cine-Eye; architecture; cinema; exhibition spaces

Full Text:

PDF

References

Arnheim, Rudolf. Arte y percepción visual. Madrid: Alianza Forma, 1984.

Aynsley, Jeremy. “” PRESSA”, Cologne, 1928. Diseño de exposiciones y publicaciones en la época de Weimar”, in Espacios fotográficos públicos. Exposiciones de propaganda, de Pressa a The Family of Man, 1928-1955, edited by Jorge Ribalta. Barcelona: Musei d’Art Contemporari, 2008.

Bayer, Herbert. “Aspects of design of exhibitions and museums”. Curator: The Museum Journal Vol. 4 N. 3 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2151-6952.1961.tb01561.x

Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. “De la “Faktura” a la “Faktografía””, in Espacios fotográficos públicos. Exposiciones de propaganda, de Pressa a The Family of Man, 1928-1955, edited by Jorge Ribalta. Barcelona: Musei d’Art Contemporari, 2008.

Cauman, Samuel. Living Museum: Experiences of an Art Historian – Alexander Dorner. New York: New York University Press, 1958.

Deleuze, Gilles. “La materia y el intervalo según Vertov”. www.catedras.fsoc.uba.ar/decarli/textos/Deleuze.htm. Accessed January 8, 2012.

El Lissitzky. El Lissitzky, 1929. La Reconstrucción de la Arquitectura en la U.R.S.S. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1970.

Giménez Caballero, Ernesto. “12.302 Kms. Literatura. La etapa alemana”. La Gaceta Literaria 43 (1928).

Gouch, Maria. “Constructivism Disoriented: El Lissitzky’s Dresden and Hannover Demostrationsraüme”, in Situating El Lissitzky. Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow, edited by Nancy Perloff and Brian Reed. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2003.

Kaufman, Mikhail et al. “An interview with Mikhail Kaufman”. October 11 (1979).

Lissitzky-Küppers, Sophie. El Lissitzky. Life-letters-texts. London, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1967.

Moholy-Nagy, László. “Cómo la fotografía revoluciona la visión”, in László Moholy-Nagy. Fotogramas 1922-1943, edited by Herbert Molderings et al. Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tápies, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 1997 (original: 1933).

Pevsner, Nikolaus. “The Lissitzky Room”. Art Journal 31 (1971). https://doi.org/10.2307/775658

Pohlman, Ulrick. “Los diseños de exposiciones de El Lissitzky. La influencia de su obra en Alemania, Italia y los Estados Unidos, 1923-1943”, in Espacios fotográficos públicos. Exposiciones de propaganda, de Pressa a The Family of Man, 1928-1955, edited by Jorge Ribalta. Barcelona: Musei d’Art Contemporari, 2008.

Ribalta, Jorge (ed). Espacios fotográficos públicos. Exposiciones de propaganda, de Pressa a The Family of Man, 1928-1955. Barcelona: Musei d’Art Contemporari, 2008.

Stam, Mart. “El Lissitzky’s conception of architecture 1966”, in El Lissitzky. Life-letters-texts, edited by Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. London, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1967.

Tupytsin, Margarita. “From Abstract to Cinematic Cabinet”, in Malevich and Film, edited by Margarita Tupitsin. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, Barcelona: Fundación “la Caixa”, 2002.

Tupytsin, Margarita. “Back to Moscow”, in El Lissitzky. Beyond the Abstract Cabinet, edited by Margarita Tupytsin. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1999.

Vertov, Dziga. Memorias de un cineasta bolchevique. Madrid: Capitán Swing Libros SL, 2011.

Abstract Views

1749
Metrics Loading ...

Metrics powered by PLOS ALM


Bookmark and Share


This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Universitat Politècnica de València

e-ISSN: 2341-2747    ISSN: 2341-3050   https://doi.org/10.4995/vlc

Guardar