A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction to
the life and work of this versatile Russian artist. Alexander
Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the
Russian Constructivist art movement; a radical activist, a pioneer
of photomontage, a theorist, and a teacher. He was an active force
in the organization of the first museums of modern art that arose
in Russia in the first years after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Attending art school in 1914 in Kazan was to be a defining
influence: that year Russian Futurists performed in the town, and
Rodchenko saw their leading figures in action. It transformed his
vision and he was still working with Futurist artists and their
ideas twenty-five years later. And it was at art school where
Rodchenko first met the artist Varvara Stepanova, with whom he
collaborated extensively, and who would become his life-long
partner. Central in the re-examination of art and its place in
society after the Revolution, and in the search for a new culture
without the class implications of the past, Rodchenko's radical
approach proposed a new understanding of a constructed, rather than
a tastefully composed, culture. This concise, comprehensive and
informative work focuses largely on Rodchenko's graphic work in the
form of book jackets, posters and advertising. The Design series is
the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British
Book Design and Production Awards 2009, judges said: "A series of
books about design, they had to be good and these are. The branding
is consistent, there is a good use of typography and the covers are
superb." Also available: Claud Lovat Fraser ISBN: 9781851496631,
GPO ISBN: 9781851495962, Peter Blake ISBN: 9781851496181, FHK
Henrion ISBN: 9781851496327, David Gentleman ISBN: 9781851495955,
David Mellor ISBN: 9781851496037, E.McKnight Kauffer ISBN:
9781851495207, Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious ISBN:
9781851495009, El Lissitzky ISBN: 9781851496198, Festival of
Britain 1951 ISBN: 9781851495337, Harold Curwen & Oliver Simon:
Curwen Press ISBN: 9781851495719, Jan Le Witt and George Him ISBN:
9781851495665, Paul Nash and John Nash ISBN: 9781851495191, and
Abram Games ISBN: 9781851496778.
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