"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 9 Yankee Go Home by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko
Russian, 1891–1956
1924
A 1924 gravure book cover by Aleksandr Rodchenko that deploys bold Constructivist lettering, stark printing, and photomontage-like imagery to attack U.S. influence and rally Soviet readers.
The cover hits like a poster: slanted arrows and chunky type slice across a flat yellow field while an oversized gloved hand, a machine wheel, and shadowy figures are pushed into a jagged, cinematic composition of high-contrast black.
A key example of Soviet Constructivist graphic design, it helped formalize a new visual toolkit—typography, photomontage, and machine imagery treated as active, political devices—that reshaped propaganda and modern graphic practice.
Medium
Gravure
Dimensions
7 x 5" (17.9 x 12.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Kenneth Walker Fund
Accession
407.1991.9
Palette
Exhibitions
