Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design. By Christopher Mount and Peter Kenez. Harry N. Abrams, 1997 (first published to coincide with an exhibition at the MoMA). 96pp., 12 x 9 x 0.3 inches.
"The Stenberg brothers, like their contemporaries Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, were artists of immensely varied interests and eclectic skills. They were sculptors, architects, and stage and costume designers, and were enamored of the film and montage theories developed in the suddenly burgeoning Soviet film industry. As seen in this book's superb colorplates, they brought to film poster design an extraordinary compositional dynamism, originality, and contrast of scale, employing many of the artistic conventions of the Constructivist movement to great effect."
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