[Rodchenko, Aleksandr] Dabrowski, Magdalena / Dickerman, Leah / Galassi, Peter.

Aleksandr Rodchenko. With essays by Aleksandr Lavrent’ev and Varvara Rodchenko.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1998. 24,5 cm x 29,5 cm. Frontispiece, 336 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only the very slightest sign of wear. Rare in this condition ! Very heavy book !

Includes for example: Aleksandr Rodchenko: Innovation and Experiment / On Priorities and Patents / The Propagandizing of Things / Rodchenko and Photography’s Revolution / Days in the Life… / Plates 1915-1939 etc.

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1891 – December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova.
Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or down below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: “One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.” (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko · Catalogue Four – International Art · Catalogue Six – Photography · Design – Rare · Inanna Modern – Art Books · Inanna Modern – Photography Books · Photography – Rare · Russian Art · Russian History – Rare · Russian Photography
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870700642
• Inventory Number: 110048AB

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