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[IZOSTAT] The struggle for five years in four / edited by L.Kogan, design of the charts by I.Ivanitzky

Item #2732

Moscow: State Publishing House of Fine Arts, [1931]. [6] p.of text, 65 leaves of diagrams, including fold-outs. 20x24 cm. In original publisher’s cloth folder. Folder is rubbed with a small piece of cloth missing from the bottom part of the front cover. Clean internally, overall a very good copy.

Rare edition, created at the very beginning of IZOSTAT fame in Soviet publishing. In English.

The approach to the visualization of statistical data—often termed “visual statistics”—was first formulated in Vienna in the 1920s and subsequently developed and widely disseminated in the Soviet Union by the IZOSTAT Institute in Moscow. As a method of presenting quantitative information in graphic form, it transformed abstract numerical data into accessible visual narratives, thereby enhancing both comprehension and persuasive impact. Among the institute’s most notable achievements is the album Moscow Reconstructing (1938), designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko, which exemplifies the maturity and effectiveness of this visual-statistical language.

In 1931, Lenizogiz established the Department of Visual Statistics, which has since produced a series of diagrams as well as the album ‘Dognat’ i Peregnat’. OGIZ followed the next year. This book was likely one of the first examples of using Vienna method in Soviet publishing.
This edition is important as it was created by one of the theoreticians of IZOSTAT, I.P.Ivanitzky (also the art editor of Moscow Reconstructing). Ivanitzky wrote a manifest of the visual statistics Pictorial Statistics and the Vienna Method, published in 1932 by the same publisher. In it he explains the goals and objectives of the method, explaining his view on why proletarian statistics and the Vienna method combine well: ‘For proletarian statistics to fulfill its class-based objectives, new methods are required—new explorations aimed at combining the persuasive power of numerical data with the potent means of influence at the disposal of the visual arts’.
Ivanitzky was the chief artist for the diagrams of the albums, beside him three brigades of artists were working on other elements of the edition: Mesheriakov, Ushakova, Kirpichev, Abramova, Arngold, Gladun, Kviatkovsky, Lebedeva and Ivantzitzkaya. It was a common practice for IZOGIZ to assign several groups of artists to the same edition.

Price: $3,500.00

Status: On Hold