What Russia did next ART Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: February 17, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

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 Suprematist abstractions of Kazimir Malevich - hopeful symbols of how the Russian Revolution had ushered mankind towards a realm of limitless possibility. The Hayward's show tells the less than perfectly happy story of what happened next, seen through the lens of one of the 20th century's most ...

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