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"The Mexican" by Jack London – Intermedia – 3 sketches of the clowns' costumes

Sergei Eisenstein1921

Eisensteins Universum, Film Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Eisensteins Universum, Film Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Mainz, Germany

Working on "The Mexican" as a costume designer, Eisenstein depicted the play’s adversaries, competing boxing managers, as highly stylized Cubist geometrical figures, spheres, triangles, and squares. The sketches with their grotesquely bright colors revived the tradition of Russian woodcuts.

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  • Title: "The Mexican" by Jack London – Intermedia – 3 sketches of the clowns' costumes
  • Creator: Sergei Eisenstein
  • Date Created: 1921
  • Location: Moscow
  • Physical Dimensions: 21, 3 x 29, 1
  • Provenance: The Russian State Archive for Literature and Art, Moscow
  • Medium: Watercolor and pencil on cardboard
Eisensteins Universum, Film Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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