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Lissitzky's view that art could bring about social change informed his work as architect, typographer and book designer throughout his career, and his graphic style found its voice in the Bauhaus, Constructivist and De Stijl movements. This book, which helped to establish Lissitzky's reputation as a graphic designer, demonstrates exlusively through typography the prominence that letters and geometric shapes held as visual symbols in his Constructivist art. Books were especially important artistic vehicles for him because they were so approachable and could be personally possessed and manipulated.

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