El Lissitzky, Proun room, 1923 Didn’t create art; called his work ‘proun room’, which was a made up word that is thought to be an acronym in Russian for ‘project for the affirmation of the new’  Thought to be the first installation art. Instead of a piece of art that can be hung anymore, Lissitzky designed this entire space. The work can’t be experienced unless the viewer moves through the space.

El Lissitzky, Proun room, 1923

  • Didn’t create art; called his work ‘proun room’, which was a made up word that is thought to be an acronym in Russian for ‘project for the affirmation of the new’ 
  • Thought to be the first installation art. Instead of a piece of art that can be hung anymore, Lissitzky designed this entire space. The work can’t be experienced unless the viewer moves through the space.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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