ID: 700009520 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009520	Record Type: Movable Work

Axonometric Projection of the Proun Room Installed at the Greater Berlin Art Exhibition (lithograph; draughtsman, architect: El Lissitzky; 1923)

Note: Between 1919 and 1927, El Lissitzky produced a large body of paintings, prints, and drawings that he referred to by the word Proun (pronounced pro-oon), an acronym for “project for the affirmation of the new” in Russian. These works were prototypes for visionary inhabitable abstractions in which the visitor could experience geometric shapes and linear vectors wrapping around corners and launching toward the ceiling. In his transformation of the two-dimensional works into “abstract rooms” (such as this one), Lissitzky was part of a general blurring of disciplinary boundaries that took place as artists explored line throughout the twentieth century. His radical reconception of space and material is a metaphor for the fundamental transformations in society that he expected the Russian Revolution to produce.

Titles:

Axonometric Projection of the Proun Room Installed at the Greater Berlin Art Exhibition (preferred,C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

lithograph [300041379] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, planographic prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: 1923

Creator Display:

draughtsman, architect: El Lissitzky [preferred]

draftsman Lissitzky, El (Russian artist and architect, 1890-1941, active in Germany and Russia) Extent: design [500015156]

Locations:

Centre canadien d'architecture (Montreal, Québec province, Canada) [500045863] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: Reference number: DR1984:1581

Credit Line: Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/ Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Display Materials: 1 print(s); Lithograph on wove paper / lithographie sur papier vélin

	lithography [300053271]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, planographic printing processes)

	wove paper [300014187]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by production method>)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

Dimensions: sheet: 44,3 x 59,9 cm

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:

	installation (exhibition) [300182935]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <architectural elements by building type>) (AAT)

	axonometric projection (image) [300034021]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>, <images by method of representation>, <images by method of projection>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: signed - by the artist, in graphite, l.r.: "El Lissitzky"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Axonometric Projection of the Proun Room Installed at the Greater Berlin Art Exhibition	........ [VP,CCA]
	........ Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-) acessed 8 August 2018, https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/online/#works/01/19