Our forty-fifth Standing-Room-Only Lecture will have María Matilde Morales coming from the home of Harvard’s first astronomical observatory to talk about Dlia golosa (For the Voice), a 1923 collection of greatest hits by the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Designer El Lissitzky’s inventive use of typesetting tools created a multisensorial, interactive experience: a book to be read out loud, apprehended visually, and touched by hands. Both Lissitzky and Mayakovsky used the letterpress to reach mass audiences and to develop personal signatures. This is the story of one of the twentieth century’s great graphic achievements.
Our speaker, María Matilde Morales, is PhD candidate at Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature focusing on both the relationship between aesthetics and ideology and in Soviet-Latin American artistic exchanges.
Thirty tickets are available for $10 each.
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Date and Time
Friday, December 5 at 7p
Doors open at 6p for mingling.
Place
Katherine Small Gallery
108 Beacon Street
Somerville, MA 02143 [map]
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Standing-Room Only Lectures aim to present short talks about graphic design, typography, and collecting. The lectures are kept to about twenty minutes because—true to its name—the series takes place in our standing-room only gallery. So, wear comfortable shoes and bring a short attention span.