Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design

by Peter Kenez, Christopher Mount, Georgii Stenberg (Artist)

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.

Genres: Art, Design

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Peter Kenez, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus in the History Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A founding faculty member of UCSC's Stevenson College, Kenez received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has been teaching Russian and modern European history at UCSC since 1966.

Mr. Kenez' research interests include Russian history, Eastern Europe, 20th-century Europe and Soviet film. At UCSC, he has taught courses in each of those areas, as well as Modern European History, the Holocaust and Jewish social history. He is the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching award.

Kenez is a native of Hungary and a Holocaust survivor. He is the author of eight books, including A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End and the autobiographical Varieties of Fear: Growing Up Jewish Under Nazism and Communism. His most recent work is entitled From Antisemitism to Genocide; the Origins of the Holocaust.

Reviews

[Eric Byrd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Plenty of online stores carry prints of these posters, but they're all so good that I remain unable to decide on just one (or even two) for my walls. They will stay a book then.

[Oxalis · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Stenbergs were new artists to me and I really enjoyed seeing some of their work and reading the accompanying analysis. Very well done collection.