Constructivism Beyond the Cinema

Books, Goods, and the Argument

Rodchenko, Lissitzky, and the Mosselprom advertising constructors.

Rodchenko’s "Books!" with Lilya Brik (1924), Lissitzky’s Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919–20), and the Rodchenko–Mayakovsky "advertising constructors" work for Mosselprom (1923–25). The design canon that changed graphic art worldwide.

1919–1929 · USSR

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge — El Lissitzky, 1919–20

A red triangle drives into a white circle. The whole civil war in one diagram.

Have You Volunteered? — Dmitry Moor, 1920

A Red Army soldier points straight out of the frame and asks.