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Aleksandr Rodchenko

Mess Mend ili Ianki v Petrograde, vol. 1-10

1924

Each cover with letterpress lettering and photomontage illustration on front, and letterpress lettering on back; letterpress texts include typographic designs

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Author Jim Dollar (pseudonym For Marietta Shaginian)
Medium Each cover with letterpress lettering and photomontage illustration on front, and letterpress lettering on back; letterpress texts include typographic designs
Dimensions page: 7 x 4 7/8" (17.8 x 12.4 cm)
Publisher Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, Moscow-Leningrad
Edition 25,000
Credit Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation
Object number 344.2001.A-J
Department Drawings and Prints

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Aleksandr Rodchenko

Aleksandr Rodchenko

Russian, 1891–1956 246 works online

When The Museum of Modern Art’s first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. , met Aleksandr Rodchenko on his trip to Moscow in 1927—one of the first times an Anglophone art historian had visited the Soviet Union in the years since the Russian Revolution—he wrote, “Rodchenko showed us an appalling variety of things—Suprematist paintings (preceded by the earliest geometrical things I’ve seen, 1915, done with compass)—woodcuts, linoleum cuts, posters, book designs, photographs, kino sets, etc….

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