Example sentences for: rodchenko

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  • When Lenin instituted the New Economic Policy in 1921--which permitted a limited amount of capitalist competition in order to restore some of the country's cash flow--Rodchenko and Mayakovsky became the advertising agency for many of the state's manufacturing and retail operations, which, in a sense, let them have their cake and eat it, too.

  • To view the large, multifaceted exhibit of his work at MoMA is at once exhilarating and poignant--exhilarating because of the nearly 20 years of unabating discovery, astounding energy, and constant renewal at its heart; poignant because the main inspiration for the work was a ladderlike series of delusions that inevitably toppled Rodchenko into the void.

  • From our remove, there appear to be many similarities among Rodchenko's preoccupations and those of artists who stood on the other side of some ideological gulf.

  • László Moholy-Nagy essentially invented the diagonal, for instance, and Umbo (Otto Umbehr) shares credit with his Russian colleague Aleksandr Rodchenko for discovering the graphic power of the shadow as seen from a perpendicular perspective.

  • The career of the protean all-media artist Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) can be seen as a textbook example of the seduction and betrayal of the Russian Revolution.


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