El Lissitzsky: Poem Analysis

In this passage, I have identified that books should not only be produced because of high quantities in demand but be produced for quality demand for a more representative effect and uniquely appearance. Books that are made for quality demand depend more on carefully handcrafted work to look at its finest best and thus having them produce in non-traditional art and style form. This is important because at the time of the Revolutionary War, a large amount of books looked the same. They had similar format placement and plain standard text. El Lissitzsky wanted books and posters to change because they did not have a uniquely informative and interactive way towards an audience. The Revolutionary War in the Soviet Union caused them to make a production of artwork for educational and propaganda purposes, just as in America, where it gave its people a desire for material ownership. With both of these cases, this is why El Lissitzsky wanted to create emotion to the masses and to an audience through books. But by doing so, the need for speed (industrializing things faster) wouldn't work …show more content…
This image marks when he says that better quality comes from better design and representation. Our March book was produced with letter-pressing each letter to the page and customizing the arrangement of design elements to make it more interesting to readers. He says in the Armstrong book, a "reduction of a symbol, and sound letters can be easily created to make an image or picture where everyone will understand this." (page 27) By doing this, he made it easy to visually see and feel the story or poem. He also made the book more fascinating by creating indexes with tabs where the reader can easily transition to the next page or passage. Not all machines could do this, thus why having things handmade and carefully produced turns out to be the best quality out in the