"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 10 Soviet Explosion by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko
Russian, 1891–1956
1924
A 1924 gravure book cover by Aleksandr Rodchenko that uses photomontage, bold typography, and a red-and-black palette to dramatize and politicize the story on its pages.
Slashing diagonals and arrows collide with overlapping photographic fragments—a stopwatch-like device, a bearded portrait, silhouetted figures and a uniformed soldier—so that the composition feels like a clenched, urgent explosion of image and text.
A striking example of Russian Constructivist design that helped turn photomontage and typography into active tools of political persuasion and shaped the visual language of modern graphic design and propaganda.
Medium
Gravure
Dimensions
7 x 5" (17.9 x 12.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Kenneth Walker Fund
Accession
407.1991.10
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
