Example sentences for: rodchenko

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  • Rodchenko and his friends in the various groupings of the left wing of Soviet art in the 1920s saw themselves as embattled representatives of the true spirit of the Revolution, in the face of various currents of reaction, mediocrity, timidity, and stasis.

  • Soon Rodchenko had renounced any art divorced from practical application and was driving down every useful avenue, designing clothing (the factory uniform by way of Buck Rogers), printed fabrics, newspaper kiosks, logotypes, magazine covers and book jackets, and printed advertisements of all sorts.

  • Rodchenko's designs--in red and black, crisply diagonal, filled with visual hooks and slams--are still being aped today, and some of them manage to look more modern than anything around now (Mayakovsky's apparently catchy rhymed slogans, unfortunately, do not translate well).

  • 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.

  • Vladimir Mayakovsky was out to reinvent poetry, Vsevelod Meyerhold theater, Vladimir Tatlin the monument, Dziga Vertov cinema, Viktor Shklovsky and Sergei Tretiakov prose literature, while Rodchenko's domain comprised advertising, illustration, graphic design, stage design, photography, and a few other things besides.


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