"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 1 Revenge's Mask by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)

Aleksandr Rodchenko

1924

A 1924 printed gravure book cover by Aleksandr Rodchenko that uses photomontage and jagged typography to assault the eye and advertise the Russian edition of Jim Dollar’s A Yankee in Petrograd.

You’re immediately struck by the aggressive red-and-black diagonals—arrows, a cropped face, a pointing man and fractured figures layered like a visual jolt—creating a tense, theatrical sense of motion and confrontation.

This work exemplifies Constructivist photomontage that merged photography and type into a new, politically charged graphic language, helping to redefine modern book design, propaganda, and commercial typography in the 1920s.

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