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Aleksandr Rodchenko

Title
Aleksandr Rodchenko / Magdalena Dabrowski [and others] ; with essays by Aleksandr Lavrentʹev and Varvara Rodchenko.
Author
Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, 1891-1956.
Publication
New York, New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Dabrowski, Magdalena.
  • Lavrentʹev, A. N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich)
  • Rodchenko, V. A. (Varvara Aleksandrovna)
Description
336 pages : illustrations; 30 cm
Summary
  • This book is published to accompany the first major American retrospective of Rodchenko's work, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the summer of 1998. The essays in Aleksandr Rodchenko explore both phases of his career, drawing out the formal ideas that he developed as well as the social and artistic context in which he moved.
  • The book's plate section, reproducing over 300 works carefully selected from collections in Russia and throughout the West, for the first time presents a full and coherent overview of his diverse achievement. An illustrated chronology outlines the story of the artist's life.
Subject
  • Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, 1891-1956
  • Photography, Artistic
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-331) and index.
Contents
Aleksandr Rodchenko: Innovation and Experiment / Magdalena Dabrowski -- On Priorities and Patents / Aleksandr Lavrent'ev -- The Propagandizing of Things / Leah Dickerman -- Rodchenko and Photography's Revolution / Peter Galassi -- Days in the Life ... / Varvara Rodchenko -- Plates 1915-1939 -- Catalogue of the Exhibition -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art.
ISBN
0810961873
LCCN
98065575
OCLC
ocm39748482
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries