Die Kunstismen / Les Isms de l'Art / The Isms of Art (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783037788219)

The facsimile edition of Hans Arp and El Lissitzky's 1925 survey of modern art in the making

Carefully put together by El Lissitzky and Hans Arp, this 1920s publication illustrates the diversity of modern art movements from 1914 to 1924, including Constructivism, Verism, Prouns, Compressionism, Merzbild, Neo-plasticism, Purism, Dadaism, Simultaneity, Suprematism, Metaphysical Art, Abstraction, Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism. The result was Die Kunstismen, a surprisingly comprehensive yet still tongue-in-cheek survey featuring many of the major players of modern art. Through a geometrically arranged chronology evocative of De Stijl, Arp assembles a host of works by international artists, from Picasso, Braque and Mondrian to Man Ray, Alexander Archipenko, Tomoyoshi Murayama and Marc Chagall. Meanwhile, El Lissitzky's bold red-and-black cover design signified the arrival of the avant-garde to Europe.