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LEF Family
LEF or Lef may refer to: Arts and entertainment * LEF (journal), ''LEF'' (journal), a 1920s Soviet journal of aesthetics * ''L.E.F.'', a 2006 album by Ferry Corsten *''Lef'', or ''Guts'', a 1999 Dutch comedy film Organizations * LEF – For the New Generation, a political party in the Netherlands * Leading Edge Forum, a British consulting company * Legal Education Foundation, a British grant-making foundation * Life Extension Foundation, now the Biomedical Research & Longevity Society, an American organization Science and technology * Library Exchange Format, an integrated circuit design format * Luquillo Experimental Forest, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Puerto Rico * Lymphoid enhancer-binding factor 1, a protein in humans Other *Lef Nosi (1877–1946), Albanian publisher, archivist, philologist, and ethnographer {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LEF (journal)
''LEF'' ("''ЛЕФ''") was the journal of the Left Front of the Arts ("Левый фронт искусств"''"Levy Front Iskusstv"''), a widely ranging association of avant-garde writers, photographers, critics and designers in the Soviet Union. It had two runs, one from 1923 to 1925 as LEF, and later from 1927 to 1929 as '' Novy LEF'' ('New LEF'). The journal's objective, as set out in one of its first issues, was to "re-examine the ideology and practices of so-called leftist art, and to abandon individualism to increase art's value for developing communism." Productivism Although ''LEF'' was catholic in its choices of writers, it broadly reflected the concerns of the Productivist left-wing of Constructivism. The editors were Osip Brik and Vladimir Mayakovsky: fittingly, one a Russian Formalist critic and one a poet and designer who helped compose the 1912 manifesto of Russian Futurists entitled, "A Slap in the Face of Public Taste". The covers were designed by Alexander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |