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RODCHENKO'S REVOLUTION
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He thrived under Lenin, was condemned by Stalin - and championed
by a Scottish rock band. Now, thanks to Roman Abramovich, his art is
coming to Britain.
A socialist with true vision
Few artists embraced Bolshevism's clarion call - "the streets are
our brushes, the squares our palettes" - quite like Alexander
Rodchenko.
Painter, photographer, filmmaker, set designer, teacher,
metalworker, he revelled in the new freedoms thrown up by the
Russian Revolution and was fiercely ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
 "The Economist (US)")
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Pictures and pain; Alexander Rodchenko.
The Economist (US)
; Taking it on the chin How an avant-garde Russian master influenced generations of photographers ALEXANDER RODCHENKO was a well-known Moscow painter when, at the age of 33 in 1924, he took up photography. Within a year his dramatic manipulations of perspective were attracting international notice.
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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VISUAL REVOLUTION RODCHENKO IMAGES OUTLAST RISE AND FALL OF SOVIET EMPIRE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler News Staff Writer The ideological darts might have lost some of their sting over time, but the aesthetics remain sharp in two exhibitions ...
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What Russia did next ART Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography, at the Hayward Gallery, serendipitously begins just where the Royal Academy's current blockbuster, From Russia, comes to an end. The final galleries of the Academy's exhibition are given over to the geometric constructions of Vladimir Tatlin and the
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Art for the masses
The Spectator
; Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography Hayward Gallery, until 27 April There's a whole separate exhibition in the downstairs galleries of the Hayward. It's called Laughing in a Foreign Language and is supposed to explore the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art through the work
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THE LIFE OF RODCHENKO BY A SOVIET ART EXPERT
The Boston Globe
; RODCHENKO. The Complete Work, by S. O. Khan-Magomedov. MIT Press. 303 pp. $50. Illustrated. In Robert Hughes' felicitous phrase, the art of the Russian Constructivist Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) was "a shout in the street." He meant to seize your attention. Convinced that art should be purely
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