Alexander Rodchenko
Vladimir Vladimirovitch Mayakovski

Vladimir Vladimirovitch Mayakovski

© Estate of Alexander Rodchenko / UPRAVIS, Moscow / ARS, NY

Vladimir Vladimirovitch Mayakovski
Vladimir Vladimirovitch Mayakovski
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Vladimir Vladimirovitch Mayakovski
Date1924
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 19 7/16 × 11 11/16 in. (49.4 × 29.7 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/16 × 11 11/16 in. (49.4 × 29.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1989
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
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Description


The Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War (1917–23) brought drastic political and economic change, as well as great social and cultural transformation. Old ways of seeing and thinking were to be replaced, and radical artists ushered in a state-supported artistic revolution that was just as bold. In 1921 Alexander Rodchenko abandoned painting and by 1924 had embraced photography as the medium for this new era. Photography was technologically modern and capable of representing the world through an ever-mobile and industrial lens. Rodchenko pioneered techniques in photomontage, explored his subjects using dynamic angles—“worm’s eye” and “bird’s eye” views—and produced jarring close-up  portraits.




 





The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) was celebrated as an embodiment of the Russian Revolution. Rodchenko’s enlarged image—like monumentalized portraits of Lenin and Stalin—emphasizes Mayakovsky’s iconic presence.



ProvenanceArtist family, Moscow; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (deaccessioned); [Sander Gallery, New York]; purchased by Manfred Heiting; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Alexander Rodchenko", Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998;
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil, verso, lower left half: "A.M. Pegnelko 1924"
Lower right half, two stamps in purple ink in Russian [?]
There is no evident signature.

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