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Book SynopsisThrough 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
Trade Review“Glebova’s book is a valuable addition to the literature on this remarkable and always relevant figure.”—Peter Lowe,
Russian Art + Culture“Glebova’s painstaking analysis reveals a more complex side to [Rodchenko’s] work. . . . An unflinching focus on the far more opaque and challenging work Rodchenko undertook in the dark years of the 1930s.”—Rosamund Bartlett,
Literary ReviewCo-winner of the MSA 1st Book Prize, sponsored by the Modernist Studies Association
“Glebova’s perspicacious and eloquent readings of Rodchenko’s works make new, and make much richer, his body of work.”—Kristin Romberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“This is the most important book on Rodchenko, and an indispensable book to Russian art history, to the history of photography, and to the story of how modern art intersects with life and how artists practice their politics.”—Andrei Pop, University of Chicago
