Design: Rodchenko

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DESIGN: Rodchenko, com
Milner, is an excellent introduction to
the work of the versatile Russian artist
Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1953),
a central figure in the Constructivist art
movement. This concise, comprehensive
and informative work focuses on
Rodchenko's graphic design work.



Design
A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction
to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist.
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a
central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement;
a radical activist, a pioneer of photomontage, a theorist,
and a teacher. He was an active force in the organization of
the first museums of modern art that arose in Russia in the
first years after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Attending
art school in 1914 in Kazan was to be a defining influence:
that year Russian Futurists performed in the town, and
Rodchenko saw their leading figures in action. It transformed
his vision and he was still... Tovább

Fülszöveg

DESIGN: Rodchenko, com
Milner, is an excellent introduction to
the work of the versatile Russian artist
Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1953),
a central figure in the Constructivist art
movement. This concise, comprehensive
and informative work focuses on
Rodchenko's graphic design work.



Design
A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction
to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist.
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a
central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement;
a radical activist, a pioneer of photomontage, a theorist,
and a teacher. He was an active force in the organization of
the first museums of modern art that arose in Russia in the
first years after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Attending
art school in 1914 in Kazan was to be a defining influence:
that year Russian Futurists performed in the town, and
Rodchenko saw their leading figures in action. It transformed
his vision and he was still working with Futurist artists and
their ideas twenty-five years later. And it was at art school
where Rodchenko first met the artist Varvara Stepanova, with
whom he collaborated extensively, and who would become his
life-long partner. Central in the re-examination of art and
its place in society after the Revolution, and in the search
for a new culture without the class implications of the past,
Rodchenko's radical approach proposed a new understanding of
a constructed, rather than a tastefully composed, culture.
This concise, comprehensive and informative book focuses
largely on Rodchenko s graphic work in the form of book
jackets, posters and advertising.
Jacket designed by Webb & Webb based on Rodchenko s
packaging for Zebra Biscuits, 1923-1924 Vissza