THE POSTER ATLAS

Constructivism Beyond the Cinema

The Soviet Wing

The books, the goods, the argument — not the regime.

1919–1929

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). Curatorial framing rule, stated plainly here and on every piece in this wing: shown as the design canon that changed graphic art worldwide — this wing tells design history, it does not celebrate the regime.

Why this school is here

Soviet Constructivism

USSR · 1919–1929

Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller framework; shown as design history the wing does not celebrate the regime.

Collections

Constructivism Beyond the Cinema

Books, Goods, and the Argument

Rodchenko, Lissitzky, and the Mosselprom advertising constructors.

1919–1929 · USSR

In the wing

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

Books, Goods, and the Argument

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

Books, Goods, and the Argument

Have You Volunteered? — Dmitry Moor, 1920

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