Antikbar Original Vintage Posters
Lot 1705
Vintage advertising poster Books by LenGiz designed by Rodchenko. The poster was never printed and only existed as wall design. The woman shouting books is Lilya Brik, wife of Osip Brik and lover of poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or down below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again." This poster was part of a set or reproductions printed in 1970s in France and Germany. Good condition, small tears top margin, yellowing edges. Country: France or Germany. Year: 1970s. Designer: Aleksander Rodchenko. Size (cm): 48.5 x 68.5
