Modern Artists As Illustrators - Softcover

Dabrowski, Magdalena And Leah Dickerman And Peter Galassi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870700642 ISBN 13: 9780870700644

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 1998

Synopsis

[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 ! 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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0870700642
• ISBN 13: 9780870700644
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1