Rodchenko's Revolutionary Vision.(artist Aleksandr Rodchenko has distinctive modernists style)(Abstract) From: Art in America | Date: December 1, 1998| Author: ADAMS, BROOKS | COPYRIGHT 1998 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A highly selective survey of certain of the Soviet artist's works opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in one stop of the international exhibit. Some of his works were produced in collaboration with his wife, artist Varvara Stepanova. Most of the works were also realized in service to the Constructivist group or to the Soviet state propaganda machine.

A traveling retrospective highlights the formal rigor of Aleksandr Rodchenko--an artist who, in seeking to compete with hi...

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