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RODCHENKO, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1891-1956) (il

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Moscow: "Federatsiya," 1930. 224 pp., 8vo (165 x 120 mm). Original paper backed boards with Constructivist covers by Rodchenko. Condition: covers lightly discolored, extremities slightly rubbed, small dampstain to rear board. An important treatise on the theory of Agitation and Constructivist art in Russia. It also contains a brief history of leftist art movements in post-Revolutionary Russia including a chapter on Futurism. Along with other critical theorists such as Osip Brik, Arvatov "advocated for the extension of Constructivism into Productivism in such books as Iskusstvo v proizvodstve [Production Art] and Iskusstvo i klassy [Art and Class]" (Compton, 1992 p. 64). One of 3000 copies. MoMA 890; Hellyer 16.

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