Word: constructivist
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Possibly, the Russian Constructivists' preoccupation with space (and not with the resultant mass of carving or of modelling), enabled this group of artists to look at society in spatial terms. No longer did the Soviet society have to be a mass that could only be carved away or molded into massive forms, but instead, society was more than pliant; the artist could construct a society; he could create the gestalt rather than merely alter it; the Constructivist was concerned with a new metaphysics in terms of tectonics...
...factura is the condition of the material, then the construction discovers the actual process of putting together . . . the formation of conception through the use of worked material. All hail to the Communist expression of material building!" (from Constructivism by Alexci Gan, the first important publication of the Constructivist group's ideology...
...Constructivists embraced industry as a means to construction, as the Futurists had embraced the present by expression of energy, of motion and of the modern technology. The 1917 Revolution had signaled the end of the old order; the Constructivists embraced the new society based on industrialization. The Constructivist sense of space had broken with the old order or mass, and this Soviet "avant-garde" directed their efforts away from the pedestal arts to the reorganization of the artistic life through a promotion of the new politics and economics: "The streets shall be our brushes the squares our palettes. . . . " (Vladimir Mayakovsky...