Russian Avant-Garde
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El Lissitzky, Study for a page of The Story Of Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale in Six Constructions, 1929: “They fly to earth from very far away.”
El Lissitzky, Untitled from First Kestner Portfolio Proun, print No. 2, 1919-23
View Larger El Lissitzky, Model for Sergei Tretyakov’s I want a child, for Meyerhold’s Unrealized Production, 1929
![Image from El Lissitzky’s Suprematist story — of two squares [Suprematicheskii Skaz], 1922.
Alain Badiou writes:
Even though Molloy, Malone and the Unnamable seek out and encounter other supposed subjects, they move towards their own solitude. The tone of The Unnamable could even be described as starkly solipsistic. Without doubt it is in Beckett’s theatre, with the couples of Vladimir and Estragon (Waiting for Godot) or Hamm and Clov (Endgame), that something which will not cease to be at the heart of Beckett’s fictions comes to the fore: the couple, the Two, the voice of the other, and lastly, love. Both to defer and to beckon death through distance, Malone recounts all the elements that this love contains: “…what flutterings, alarms and bashful fumblings, of which only this, that they gave Macmann some insight into the meaning of the expression, Two is company…”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly2fehWjvN1qb9yj1o1_500.jpg)
View Larger Image from El Lissitzky’s Suprematist story — of two squares [Suprematicheskii Skaz], 1922.
Alain Badiou writes:
Even though Molloy, Malone and the Unnamable seek out and encounter other supposed subjects, they move towards their own solitude. The tone of The Unnamable could even be described as starkly solipsistic. Without doubt it is in Beckett’s theatre, with the couples of Vladimir and Estragon (Waiting for Godot) or Hamm and Clov (Endgame), that something which will not cease to be at the heart of Beckett’s fictions comes to the fore: the couple, the Two, the voice of the other, and lastly, love. Both to defer and to beckon death through distance, Malone recounts all the elements that this love contains: “…what flutterings, alarms and bashful fumblings, of which only this, that they gave Macmann some insight into the meaning of the expression, Two is company…”
Example #6 — Inspiration for album cover art: The Russian avant-garde & Constructivism
Top: El Lissitzky. Proun. 1923-1925.
Bottom left: Franz Ferdinand. Michael, single release cover art. Official cover. UK, Domino. 16th August 2004.
Bottom center: Franz Ferdinand. Michael, single release cover art. Permutation of cover. UK, Domino. 16th August 2004.
Bottom right: Franz Ferdinand. Michael, single release cover art. Permutation of cover. UK, Domino. 16th August 2004.
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Did you know that a second release of the Michael single was deleted on the day of its issue? It contained a B-side track of Tell Her Tonight in which Paul sang the lead vocals.
