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Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin

by Aglaya K. Glebova
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780300254037
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: GBP 50.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 998 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Photographers / Monographs, Individual Artists / Monographs, and Movements / Modernism

Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko's photography, a new and provocative understanding emerges of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin's Soviet Union

"Glebova's book is a valuable addition to the literature on this remarkable and always relevant figure."--Peter Lowe, Russian Art + Culture

Tracing the shifting meanings of photography in the early Soviet Union, Aglaya K. Glebova reconsiders the relationship between art and politics during what is usually considered the end of the critical avant-garde. Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956), a versatile Russian artist and one of Constructivism's founders, embraced photography as a medium of revolutionary modernity. Yet his photographic work between the late 1920s and the end of the 1930s exhibits an expansive search for a different pictorial language.

In the context of the extreme transformations carried out under the first Five-Year Plans, Rodchenko's photography questioned his own modernist commitments. At the heart of this book is Rodchenko's infamous 1933 photo-essay on the White Sea-Baltic Canal, site of one of the first gulags. Glebova's careful reading of Rodchenko's photography reveals a surprisingly heterodox practice and brings to light experiments in adjacent media, including the collaborative design work he undertook with Varvara Stepanova, Rodchenko's partner in art and life.

Aglaya K. Glebova is associate professor in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

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