IN SEARCH OF CIVIC GLORY A horse is exactly the right scale for the magnification of a man, for making him magnificent. A man on…
Medium and Techniques: Sugarlift Aquatint
Nose 3
TATLIN’S GHOST The Nose with Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International. Let us count the steps of remove. Tatlin’s plan was for a 400-metre high…
Nose 1
A NOSE AT LARGE In 1867, Nikolai Gogol published his short story The Nose. The story is about a middle-ranking Russian bureaucrat, Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov,…
Observatory (ed. of 10)
Chaise-Longue
In addition to the Nose suite of 30 etchings, five prints, known informally in the workshop as the “Nose Extras” – El Lissitky, Mirror, Odalisque, Chaise-Longue, and Nose on…
Odalisque
In addition to the Nose suite of 30 etchings, five prints, known informally in the workshop as the “Nose Extras” – El Lissitky, Mirror, Odalisque, Chaise-Longue, and Nose on…
Mirror
In addition to the Nose suite of 30 etchings, five prints, known informally in the workshop as the “Nose Extras” – El Lissitky, Mirror, Odalisque, Chaise-Longue, and Nose on…
El Lissitzky
In addition to the Nose suite of 30 etchings, five prints, known informally in the workshop as the “Nose Extras” – El Lissitky, Mirror, Odalisque, Chaise-Longue, and Nose on…
Nose 30
DARKNESS AT NOON I read Koestler’s Darkness at Noon as a first-year university student. It was written in the immediate aftermath of the 1937/1938 Stalin…
Nose 27
A SYLLOGISM OF PRINTING (libel) Testing an image through printing. The drawing on the etching plate is covered in ink. The ink is wiped off,…
Nose 28
PUTTING THE S INTO LAUGHTER Compulsory Hilarity. An X in Russian is transliterated as Kh, a guttural clearing of the throat like the G in…
Nose 25
YES, OF COURSE (bust) Noses feature often in Gogol’s writing. He himself had a famous nose. A bust of him in the hermitage shows a…