Yuri Rozhkov | Per il poema “Agli operai di Kursk” di Vladimir Majakovskij
Fotopoesia di Yuri Rozhkov per il poema di Majakovskij Agli operai di Kursk che hanno estratto il primo minerale, (1924), Monumento provvisorio, PDF, 17 pagine
For Workers of Kursk – Photomontages by Y. Rozhkov in 1924, inspired by ‘To the Workers of Kursk’ of Vladimir Mayakovsky and the geological discovery of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA)
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Per un approfondimento cfr. Aleksandar Boškovic, Revolution, Production, Representation. Iurii Rozhkov’s Photomontages to Maiakovskii’s Poem “To the Workers of Kursk”, Slavic Review, Vol. 76, No. 2 (SUMMER 2017), pp. 395-427 (33 pages), Cambridge University Press
In 1924, self-taught artist Iurii Nikolaevich Rozhkov created a series of photomontages inspired by Vladimir Maiakovskii’s poem “To the Kursk Workers” and the geological discovery of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA). Rozhkov’s series for Maiakovskii’s ode to labor is both an example of the political propaganda of the NEP-era reconstruction period and a polemical response to all those who incessantly attacked Maiakovskii and criticized avant-garde art as alien to the masses. The article presents Rozhkov’s lesser-known series of photomontages as a new model of the avant-garde photopoetry book, which offers a sequential reading of Maiakovskii’s poetry and functions as a cinematic device of the early Soviet agitprop apparatus (dispositif). Boškovic argues that photopoetry itself transforms into an idiosyncratic avant-garde demountable memorial dedicated to the working class: a dynamic cine-device through which the early agitprop apparatus is realized in lived experience, reproduced and transformed, thus outlining its shift towards the new device of the late 1920s: socialist realism.
Vedi anche Yuri Rozhkov’s photomontages for the Mayakovsky poem “To the Workers of Kursk” (1924) @Charnelhouse
