MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Brik, Photomontage
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Marinetti, leader of futurist movement, visited russia in. He became a role model for later revolutionary artists, who also rejected the capitalist ideology. Lenin, the father of russian rev. , later established agit- trains based on futurist models. These were propoganda trains that crossed russia to encourage people to join the revolution. Another russian constructivist artist who worked in a range of different media: photography, graphic design, clothing and interior design. He made constructivist covers and photomontages, such as this. Rodchenko used the new technique of photomontage, which mixes photographic imagery with text and other imagery. This portrait of lily brik is used in this cover montage. Mayakovsky"s book, pro eto records a two month separation from his lover, lily brik, whose portrait is on this cover. (despite his own rhetoric about the need to eliminate the themes of love and personal emotion from art and literature for the sake of the revolution) Mayakovsky, lily brik, zoo animals, skyscrapers and jazz.
