The revolutionary

From: The Village Voice | Date: July 14, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Aleksandr Rodchenko

The Museum of Modern Art II West 53rd Street Through October 6

Irrational ideas should be followed absolutely and logically" Sol LeWitt wrote in his "Sentences on Conceptual Art, a 1969 manifesto glittering with insights into how real artists really think. Le Witt probably did not have Aleksandr Rodchenko in mind. In the 1960s, the revolutionary-era Russian avantgarde was still only fuzzily known here, but its radical spirit loomed behind that final heyday of idolized newness in art.

Rodchenko, an avant-gardist's avant-gardist if ever there was one, could easily have ...

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