Published in 1922 in Russian, Aleksei Gan's Constructivism was the
first theoretical treatise of postrevolutionary Russia's emergent
Constructivist movement. Fired with revolutionary zeal, it was
unquestionably a declaration of war on traditional bourgeois art.
Constructivism recasts artists and architects as Constructors,
turning away from aesthetic or speculative problems in art and
instead focusing on the fusion of art with everyday life in order
to create a functional system of design, one in keeping with the
great task of building the new communist society. This edition
replicates Gan's original layout, which was one of the first
experiments in Constructivist typography and graphic design, and it
also presents a substantial introductory essay by art historian
Christina Lodder that examines Gan's own odd, mercurial character
and the tracks he left across avant-garde Russian graphics,
architecture, film, and theater. Nearly a century later,
Constructivism remains a powerful manifesto, and this new
translation will help scholars trace its enduring influence on
twentieth-century art and design.
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