Example sentences for: rodchenko

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  • Mayakovsky's scowling, angular, shaven-headed poetic boxer's mug was a dramatic advertising image unto itself, and Rodchenko's six portraits of him made him an icon (to be recycled endlessly in Soviet propaganda after Mayakovsky's dubious 1930 suicide, an act which even if self-willed was certainly nudged along by the state).

  • Rodchenko, who for a couple of years after the Revolution continued to ally himself with the soon-to-be-banned anarchists, now felt the shifting winds and bent himself to various acts of public self-criticism, but even so he found himself unable to obtain permits for street photography.

  • 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.

  • All of them were radical Modernists well before 1917, and Rodchenko was no exception.


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