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Aleksandar Bošković - A Constructivist Cinépoem: Rozhkov's photomontages for Maiakovskii's poem “To the Workers of Kursk”
On The October 14, 2019
Salle de réunion - Allée A - 1er étage
In 1924 the self-taught artist Iurii Nikolaevich Rozhkov created a series of photomontages inspired by Vladimir Maiakovskii’s propagandistic ode to labor, “To the Workers of Kursk,” and the geological discovery of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA), the biggest iron-ore basin in the world. The series was first shown at the “Twenty Years of Work” exhibition in January 1930, which the poet himself curated. In the exhibition catalogue, Maiakovskii made note of Rozhkov’s work as: “A temporary monument. Rozhkov’s montages. To be printed.” Two months after the exhibition Maiakovskii committed suicide. Rozhkov’s photomontages remained unpublished during his lifetime.
Bio: Aleksandar Bošković is a Lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University. He is a fellow of the Collegium de Lyon 2019-2020.
Photo caption:
Iurii Nikolaevich Rozhkov. One of the sixteen sheets from the photomontage series for Vladimir Maiakovskii’s “To the Workers of Kursk” (1924). The State Literary Museum (GLM), Moscow. Courtesy of Kira Matissen.