2005 Reports

Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism

Kiaer, Christina

For the Constructivist avant-garde that formed after the Russian Revolution, art was hopelessly bourgeois as well as outmoded, because it involved traditionally handmade objects that were bought and sold on the market. The Constructivists called for artists to go to work in factories instead of their studios, where they would use modern technology to mass produce useful objects for the revolutionary masses.