Aleksandr Rodchenko
Aleksandr Rodchenko Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko's photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in…
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Aleksandr Rodchenko
Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko's photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin's Soviet Union "Glebova's book is a valuable addition to the literature on this remarkable and always relevant figure."--Peter Lowe, Russian Art + CultureTracing the shifting meanings of photography in the early Soviet Union, Aglaya K. Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956), a versatile Russian artist and one of Constructivism's founders, embraced photography as a medium of revolutionary modernity. Glebova reconsiders the relationship between art and politics during what is usually considered the end of the critical avant-garde.
Yet his photographic work between the late 1920s and the end of the 1930s exhibits an expansive search for a different pictorial language.In the context of