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[[Image:Second_Spring_Exhibition_of_OBMOKhU_Moscow_May-June_1921.jpg|thumb|350px|Second Spring Exhibition of OBMOKhU, Moscow, May-June 1921. Constructions by [[Alexander Rodchenko]], [[Konstantin Medunetsky]], [[Karl Ioganson]], [[Georgii Stenberg]] and [[Vladimir Stenberg]]; two have been preserved: Medunetsky's ''[[#Medunetsky1919|Spatial Construction]]'' and Rodchenko's ''[[#Rodchenko1920|Oval Hanging Spatial Construction no. 12]]''.]]
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[[Image:Bann_Stephen_1974_A timeline_of_constructivism.jpg|thumb|350px|A timeline of constructivism from [[#Bann1974|Bann 1974: xviii]].]]
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A resource on constructivism, focusing primarily on the movement in Russia and east-central Europe from the late 1910s through the 1930s.
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The page contains an overview of major exhibitions and catalogues, selection of works, list of (digitised) magazines, pamphlets and books, anthologies of texts (also merged into a single table), historical studies and analyses, and profiles of artists, theorists and groups.
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''First published 25 September 2015.''
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==Events==
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===Exhibition catalogues===
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''Some of the catalogues are available online, follow PDF links in captions.''
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Erste_Russische_Kunstausstellung_1922.jpg|''[[#Berlin1922|Erste Russische Kunstausstellung]]'', Berlin, Oct 1922. {{de}}
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Katalog_wystawy_nowej_sztuki_w_Wilnie_1923.jpg|''[[#Vilnius1923|Wystava nowej sztuki]]'', Vilnius, May-Jun 1923. Design: Vytautas Kairiūkštis. {{pl}}
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Zenit_25_Feb_1924.jpg|''[[#Belgrade1924|Zenit]]'', Belgrade, Feb 1924, [[Media:Zenit_25.pdf|PDF]]. {{sr}}
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Blok_1_1924.jpg|''[[#Warsaw1924|Blok]]'', Warsaw, Mar 1924, [[Media:Blok_1_1924.pdf|PDF]]. {{pl}}
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Contimporanul_50-51_Nov-Dec_1924.jpg|''[[#Bucharest1924|Contimporanul]]'', Bucharest, Nov-Dec 1924, [[Media:Contimporanul_50-51_Nov-Dec_1924.pdf|PDF]]. {{ro}}
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Konstruktivisten_1937.jpg|''[[#Basel1937|Konstruktivisten]]'', Basel, Jan-Feb 1937. Design: Jan Tschichold. [http://wiedler.ch/felix/books/story/700] {{de}}
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===Exhibitions, conferences===
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{{:Central_and_Eastern_Europe|transcludesection=cee-constructivism-events}}
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==Paintings, constructions, designs, models (selection)==
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Gabo_Naum_1916_Constructed_Head_No_2.jpg|Naum Gabo, ''Constructed Head No. 2'', c1916. Galvanised iron painted yellow ochre. 45x40.5x40.5 cm. [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gabo-head-no-2-t01520 Tate]. [[Gabo#Constructed_Head|More works in the series]].
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Popova_Lyubov_1917_Painterly_Architectonic.jpg|Lyubov Popova, ''Painterly Architectonic'', 1917. Oil on canvas, 80x98 cm. [http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78444?locale=en MoMA]. [[Popova#Painterly_Architectonic|More works in the series]].
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Rodchenko_Alexander_1918_Spatial_Constructions_series_1_b.jpg|Alexander Rodchenko, ''Spatial Construction No. 5'' from his ''First Series of Spatial Constructions'', 1918. Painted aluminum. 48x38x21 cm. [[Alexander_Rodchenko#Spatial_Constructions|More works in the series]].
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Medunetsky_Konstantin_1919_Spatial_Construction_Construction_no_557.jpg|{{a|Medunetsky1919}}Konstantin Medunetsky, ''Spatial Construction (Construction no. 557)'', 1919. Tin, brass, painted iron, and steel. 46x18x18 cm (with base). [http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/43794 Yale]. [[Medunetsky|More works]].
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Rodchenko_Alexander_1920-21_Spatial_Constructions_series_2_Ellipse.jpg|{{a|Rodchenko1920}}Alexander Rodchenko, "Ellipse" from his ''Second Series of Spatial Constructions'', 1920-21. Plywood, open construction partially painted with aluminum paint, and wire. 61x84x47 cm. [http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81043?locale=en MoMA]. [[Alexander_Rodchenko#Spatial_Constructions|More works in the series]].
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Ioganson_Karl_1921_Spatial_Constructions.jpg|Karl Ioganson, ''Spatial Constructions'', 1920-21. Wood, metal, and wire. Dimensions unknown. [[Ioganson#Works|More works]].
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Stenberg_Georgii_1921_Spatial_Construction_KPS_58_N_XIII.jpg|Georgii Stenberg, ''Spatial Construction KPS 58 N XIII'', 1921. [[Stenberg_brothers#Spatial_Constructions|More works]].
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Tatlin_Vladimir_Model_of_the_Monument_to_the_Third_International.jpg|Vladimir Tatlin, model for the ''Monument to the Third International'', 1920. [[Vladimir_Tatlin#Monument_to_the_Third_International|More images]].
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Klutsis_Gustav_1921_Hanging_Construction.jpg|Gustav Klutsis, ''Hanging Construction'', 1921. Photograph, 20,1x25,6 cm, printed from Klutsis's negative. [http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/collections/db/search.html?primary_control_0=AN&secondary_control_0=S&tertiary_control_text_0=Klutsis%20Gustav&sort_order=1&start=34&show=1 Costakis]. [[Klutsis#Constructions|More works]].
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Kobro_Katarzyna_1921_1972_Suspended_Construction.jpg|Katarzyna Kobro, ''Suspended Construction (1)'', 1921. Epoxy resine, fiberglass, wood, metal. 20x40x40 cm. Reconstruction by B. Utkin and J. Utkin, 1972. [[Kobro#Works|More works]].
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Szczuka_Mieczyslaw_1922_Spatial_Construction_Portrait_of_a_Revolutionary.jpg|Mieczysław Szczuka, ''Spatial Construction—Portrait of a Revolutionary'', 1922. Metal, wood. [http://zbiory.muzeumsztuki.pl/node/51025?vt=grid Łódź]. [[Szczuka#Works|More works]].
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Kassak_Lajos_1922_Bildarchitektur_II.jpg|Lajos Kassák, ''Bildarchitektur II (Entwurf eines Kiosks)'', 1922. Gouache, cardboard. [[Kassak#Works|More works]].
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Popova_Vesnin_1921_City_of_the_Future_maquette.jpg|Lyubov Popova, Alexander Vesnin, photograph of the maquette of "City of the Future" for the mass festival ''Struggle and Victory of the Soviets'', 1921. [http://www.greekstatemuseum.com/kmst/collections/db/search.html?StylesIndexingTerms=85&start=4&show=1 Costakis]. [[Popova#Struggle_and_Victory_of_the_Soviets|More images]].
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Popova_Lyubov_1922_Magnanimous_Cuckold_poster_with_model_of_stage_set.jpg|Lyubov Popova, poster with a model of stage set for ''Magnanimous Cuckold'', directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold, 1922. [[Popova#Magnanimous_Cuckold|More images]].
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Stepanova_Varvara_1922_set_for_Tarelkins_Death_dir_Meyerhold.jpg|Varvara Stepanova, stage set for ''Tarelkin's Death'', directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold, 1922. [[Stepanova#Tarelkin.27s_Death|More images]].
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A_Vesnins_model_of_the_set_for_The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday_1924.jpg|Alexander Vesnin, model for the set for ''The Man Who Was Thursday'', directed by Alexander Tairov, 1923.
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Stepanova_Varvara_1923_Designs_for_Sports_Clothing.jpg|Varvara Stepanova, Designs for sports clothing, 1923. [[Stepanova#Works|More works]].
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Teige_Karel_1926_Abeceda_H.jpg|Karel Teige, design for Vítězslav Nezval's poetry book ''Abeceda'', 1926. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11843 Full book].
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Chernikhov_Yakov_1931_A_special-purpose_giant_plant.jpg|Yakov Chernikhov, ''A Special-Purpose Giant Plant'', 1931. [[Chernikhov#Publications|More works]].
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Strzeminski_Wladyslaw_1932_Projekt_alfabetu.jpg|Władysław Strzemiński, Design of alphabet, 1932.
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==Film==
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* [http://ubu.com/film/protazanov_aelita.html ''Aelita, Queen of Mars''], dir. Iakov Protozanov, 1924. Based on the novel by Alexei Tolstoy (1923).
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4dCzqbl2CU ''Interplanetary Revolution''], dir. N. Khodataev, Z. Komisarenko, and Y. Merkulov, 1924. Animated film.
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==Magazines==
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MA_15_Jun_1925.jpg|''[[MA]]'', Budapest/Vienna, 1916-25
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De_Stijl_1-1.jpg|''[[De Stijl]]'', Delft/Leiden/Meudon, 1917-32
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Zenit_13_April_1922.jpg|''[[Zenit]]'', Zagreb/Belgrade, 1921-26
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Kino-fot_6.jpg|''[[Kino-fot]]'', Moscow, 1922-23
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Zwrotnica_7_1926.jpg|''[[Zwrotnica]]'', Cracow, 1922-23, 1926-27
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7_Arts_3_1922.jpg|''[[7 Arts]]'', Brussels, 1922-28
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G_Material_zur_elementaren_Gestaltung_3_Jun_1924.jpg|''[[G]]'', Berlin, 1923-26
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LEF_6_II_2_1924.jpg|''[[LEF]]'', Moscow, 1923-25
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Blok_6-7_1924.jpg|''[[Blok]]'', Warsaw, 1924-26
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ABC_2-4_1926_cover_El_Lissitzky.jpg|''[[ABC]]'', Basel, 1924-28
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SA_Oct_1927_cover_Aleksei_Gan.jpg|''[[Sovremennaya arkhitektura]]'', Moscow, 1926-30
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Praesens_2_May_1930.jpg|''[[Praesens]]'', Warsaw, 1926/30
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* ''[[MA|MA: Internacionális aktivista müvészeti folyóirat]]'', 76 numbers, eds. Lajos Kassák and Béla Uitz, Budapest (1916-19) and Vienna (1920-25), 1916-25. {{hu}}
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* ''[[De Stijl|De Stijl: Maandblad voor de moderne beeldende vakken (en kultuur)]]'', 90 numbers, ed. Theo van Doesburg, Delft (1917-18), Leiden (1918-21), Meudon: Theo van Doesburg, 1917-32. {{nl}}
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* ''[[Zenit]]'', 43 numbers, ed. Ljubomir Micić, Zagreb (1921-23) and Belgrade (1923-26), 1921-26. On art and literature. {{sc}},{{fr}},{{de}},{{ru}}
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* ''[[Zwrotnica|Zwrotnica: sztuka teraźniej szości]]'', 12 numbers, ed. Tadeusz Peiper, Cracow, 1922-23, 1926-27. On art and literature. {{pl}}
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* ''[[7 Arts|7 Arts: tous les arts]]'', 156 numbers, eds. Pierre Bourgeois and Victor Bourgeois, Brussels: L'Equerre, 1922-28. {{fr}}
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* ''[[G|G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung]]'', 5 numbers, ed. Hans Richter, Berlin, 1923-26. On architecture, industrial design, photography, art, film. {{de}}
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* ''[[LEF|LEF]]'', 7 numbers, eds. Osip Brik and Vladimir Mayakovsky, Moscow: Levy Front Iskusstv, 1923-25. On literature, art, journalism, photography. {{ru}}
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* ''[[Blok|Blok: czasopismo awangardy artystycznej]]'', 11 numbers, ed. Blok, Warsaw: Blok, 1924-26. On art, architecture, theatre. {{pl}}
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* ''[[ABC|ABC: Beiträge zum Bauen]]'', 10 numbers, eds. Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, El Lissitzky and Emil Roth, Basel, 1924-28. On architecture. {{de}}
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* ''[[Kino-fot|Kino-fot: zhurnal kinematografii i fotografii]]'', 6 numbers, ed. Aleksei Gan, Moscow: Aleksei Gan, 1922-23. On film and photography. {{ru}}
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* ''[[Pásmo|Pásmo: revue internationale moderne]]'', 24 numbers, ed. Artuš Černík, Brno, 1924-26. {{cz}}
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* ''[[Sovremennaya arkhitektura]]'', 30 numbers, eds. Moisei Ginzburg (1926-28), Vesnin brothers (1926-28) and Roman Khiger (1928-30), Moscow: OSA, 1926-30. On architecture. {{ru}}
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* ''[[Praesens|Praesens: revue moderne]]'', 2 numbers, ed. Szymon Syrkus, Warsaw, 1926 & 1930. On architecture, painting, photography, theatre, film, poetry. {{pl}},{{fr}}
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==Artists, groups, theorists==
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==Literature==
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==Books and pamphlets of theory and criticism==
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3951 ''LEF''] journal 1-7, 1923-25. (Russian)
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Gabo_N_Pevsner_N_Realisticheskii_manifest_1920.jpg|Gabo, Pevsner, ''[[#Gabo1920|Realisticheskii manifest]]'', 1920. 59x74 cm.
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3951 ''Novyi LEF''] journal 1-24, 1927-29. (Russian)
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Punin_Nikolay_Pamyatnik_III_internatsionala.jpg|Punin, ''[[#Punin1920|Pamyatnik III internatsionala]]'', 1920. 28x20 cm.
* Detlef Mertins, Michael William Jennings (eds.), ''G: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film, 1923-1926'', Getty Publications, 2010. [http://books.google.com/books?id=duTDMRa8bs4C]
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Gan_Aleksei_Konstruktivizm.jpg|Gan, ''[[#Gan1922|Konstruktivizm]]'', 1922.
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Ginzburg_Moisei_Stil_i_epokha.jpg|Ginzburg, ''[[#Ginzburg1924|Stil' i epokha]]'', 1924.
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Chernikhov_Yakov_Konstruktsiya_arkhitekturnykh_i_mashinnykh_form_1931.jpg|Chernikhov, ''[[#Chernikhov1931|Konstruktsiya arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykh form]]'', 1931.
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Martin_Nicholson_Gabo_eds_Circle_International_Survey_of_Constructive_Art.jpg|Martin, Nicholson, Gabo (eds.), ''[[#Circle1937|Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art]]'', 1937.
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* {{a|Gabo1920}} Naum Gabo (Н. Габо), Nathan Pevsner (Нотон Певзнер), [[Media:Gabo_N_Pevsner_N_Realisticheskii_manifest_1920.jpg|''Realisticheskii manifest'']] [Реалистический манифест], Moscow: Second State Printing House, 5 Aug 1920, 1 sheet (58.8x73.6 cm — edition of 5000). [http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3443790 Manuscript]. Issued as a poster to accompany the artists' joint open-air exhibition on Tverskoie Boulevard. Points out the limitations of cubism and futurism, outlining the principles for a new sculptural technique; in the 1923 version for ''G'' compressed into four points: the importance of life as the starting point for art, the emphasis on space and time, the rejection of mass, and the espousal of kinetic rhythms as a means of expressing time. Written by Gabo, signed also by Pevzner. Issued as a poster to accompany the artists' joint open-air exhibition on Tverskoie Boulevard, which opened 6 Aug. In a note written ca. in the 1970s, Gabo stated that the manifesto poster was stuck up all over Moscow by students from the [[Vkhutemas]] (at this point still the Free Studios) on the second day of the exhibition, 7 Aug. [http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/audio5A.html 1967 recording of Gabo reading the manifesto]. Discussed in [[#Lodder1983|Lodder 1983: 38-40]], [http://www.alyoshin.ru/Files/publika/khan_archi/khan_archi_1_034.html Khan-Magomedov 1996] (RU). {{ru}}
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** "The Realistic Manifesto", trans. Naum Gabo, in ''Gabo: Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings'', London: Lund Humphries, 1957, pp 151-152; [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n46/mode/1up repr. in] ''The Tradition of Constructivism'', ed. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, pp 5-11; [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n247/mode/1up repr. in] ''Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934'', ed. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp 208-214; [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n160/mode/1up repr. in] ''Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas'', eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 297-299. {{en}}
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** [[Gabo#Gabo1920|more translations]]
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* {{a|Punin1920}} Nikolay Punin (Н. Пунин), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10274 Pamyatnik III internatsionala. Proyekt khud. E. Tatlina]'' [Памятник III интернационала. Проект худ. Е. Татлина], St. Petersburg [Петроград]: IZO Narkompros [Отд. изобразительных искусств Н.К.П; Department of Visual Arts of Narkompros], Summer 1920, [8] pp (28.1x22 cm), [http://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000010102/view JPGs], [http://biblio-comintern.narod.ru/cominternproektpamyatnik1920.doc DOC], [http://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF046780/00001 bib]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=SkS9Obp3-GgC&pg=PA67 Punin's diary notes] (1920). Discussed in [[Media:Shklovsky_Viktor_1923_2005_The_Monument_to_the_Third_International_Tatlins_Most_Recent_Work.pdf|Shklovsky 1923/2005]], [http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/boym2.php Boym 2007], [http://books.google.com/books?id=ChxJVVRrxHwC&pg=PA153 Murray 2012], [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/OCTO_a_00198 Gough 2015]. {{ru}}
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** [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n57/mode/1up "Tatlin's Tower"], trans. John Bowlt, in ''The Tradition of Constructivism'', ed. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, pp 14-17. {{en}}
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** [[Media:Punin_Nikolai_1920_1992_The_Monument_to_the_Third_International.pdf|"The Monument to the Third International"]], trans. Christina Lodder, in ''Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas'', eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 1992, pp 311-315. Trans. made in 1983 for the Open University. {{en}}
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** [[Punin#Punin1920|more translations]]
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* {{a|Gan1922}} Aleksei Gan (Алексей Ган), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=16896 Konstruktivizm]'' [Конструктивизм], Tver: Tverskoe izdatelstvo, Summer 1922, 70 pp (23,5х19,9 cm — edition of 2000). {{ru}}
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** [[Media:Gan_Aleksei_1922_1974_Constructivism.pdf|"Constructivism"]] [Extracts], trans. John Bowlt, in ''The Tradition of Constructivism'', ed. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, pp 32-42; [[Media:Gan_Aleksei_1922_1976_Constructivism.pdf|repr. in]] ''Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934'', ed. & trans. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp 214-225; [[Media:Gan_Aleksei_1922_1992_Constructivism.pdf|repr. in]] ''Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas'', eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 318-320. {{en}}
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** ''Constructivism'', trans. & intro. Christina Lodder, Barcelona: Tenov Books, 2014, xciii+77 pp. [http://www.editorialtenov.com/en/books/constructivism-aleksei-gan/] Reviews: [http://www.russianartandculture.com/review-the-republication-of-alexei-gans-constructivism-1922-by-eleanor-rees/ Rees] (RAC 2014), [http://rbth.co.uk/literature/2014/12/02/building_a_brave_new_world_with_art_41891.html Taplin] (RBTH 2014), [http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/individual-reviews/disappeared Hatherley] (RP 2015), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.93.2.0361 Rosenfeld] (SEER 2015). {{en}}
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** [[Gan#Gan1922|more translations]]
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* {{a|Ginzburg1924}} Moisei Ginzburg (М.Я. Гинзбург), ''Stil' i epokha'' [Стиль и эпоха. Проблемы современной архитектуры], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo, 1924, 238 pp. [http://theory.totalarch.com/taxonomy/term/65 Excerpts]. Discussed in [http://www.alyoshin.ru/Files/publika/khan_archi/khan_archi_1_083.html Khan-Magomedov]. {{ru}}
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** ''[[Media:Ginzburg_Moisei_Style_and_Epoch.pdf|Style and Epoch]]'', intro. & trans. Anatole Senkevitch, Jr., foreword Kenneth Frampton, MIT Press (Oppositions Books), 1982, 160 pp. {{en}}
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* {{a|Chernikhov1931}} Yakov Chernikhov (Яков Чернихов), ''[[Media:Chernikhov_Yakov_Konstruktsiya_arkhitekturnykh_i_mashinnykh_form_1931.pdf|Konstruktsiya arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykh form]]'' [Конструкция архитектурных и машинных форм; The Construction of Architectural and Mechanical Forms], intro. Erik Fedorovich Gollerbakh, Leningrad: Ob-vo arkhitektorov, 1931, 232+[2] pp (30х21,3 cm — edition of 5150). {{ru}}
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** trans.: [[#Gollerbakh1931|Introduction]], [[#Chernikov1931|Excerpt]]. {{en}}
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* {{a|KobroStrzeminski1931}} Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński, ''Kompozycja przestrzeni. Obliczenia rytmu czasoprzestrzennego'' [Spatial Composition: Calculating the Spacetime Rhythm], Łódź: a.r. (Biblioteka a.r., 2), 1931, 79+[32] pp; repr., intro. Janusz Zagrodzki, Łódź: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Książki, 1974; repr., Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 1993. [http://teoriaarchitektury.blogspot.com/2012/08/katarzyna-kobro-wadysaw-Strzemiński.html Excerpt]. {{pl}}
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* {{a|Circle1937}} ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14642 Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art]'', eds. Leslie Martin, Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, London, 1937; repr., New York: Praeger, 1971, viii+291 pp. {{en}}
  
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==Anthologies, readers, sourcebooks==
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[[Image:Constructivismo_1973.jpg|thumb|200px|''Constructivismo'', 1973, [[Media:Constructivismo.pdf|PDF]]. {{es}}]]
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[[Image:Bann_Stephen_ed_The_Tradition_of_Constructivism.jpg|thumb|200px|Stephen Bann (ed.), ''The Tradition of Constructivism'', ed. Stephen Bann, 1974, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3970 Log], [[Media:Bann_Stephen_ed_The_Tradition_of_Constructivism.pdf|PDF]].]]
 
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* László Moholy-Nagy, ''Painting Photography Film'', 1925. Trans. Janet Seligman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1973.
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* ''[[Media:Constructivismo.pdf|Constructivismo]]'', trans. F. Fernández Buey, Madrid: Alberto Corazón, 1973, viii+374 pp. Twenty-nine texts by Soviet authors in 3+1 sections. {{es}}
* László Moholy-Nagy, ''Vision in Motion'', 1947.
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* {{a|Bann1974}} ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3970 The Tradition of Constructivism]'', ed. & intro. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, xlix+334 pp, [[Media:Bann_Stephen_ed_The_Tradition_of_Constructivism.pdf|PDF]]. Fifty-one texts from 1920-65 in 7 sections. Review: [http://www.jstor.org.sci-hub.tw/stable/2495641 Compton] (SR 1975). {{en}}
* Camilla Gray, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1604 ''The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922''], 1962.
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* ''Le constructivisme russe. I. Les arts plastiques. II. Le constructivisme littéraire'', 2 vols., ed. & intro. Gérard Conio, trans. Gérard Conio and Larissa Yakoupova, Lausanne: L'Age l'Homme, 1987, 482 & 228 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=MV8OAYtbgEoC&printsec=frontcover] [http://books.google.com/books?id=q1fRW8lnjzsC&printsec=frontcover] [http://www.lagedhomme.com/ouvrages/gerard+conio/289] [http://www.lagedhomme.com/ouvrages/gerard+conio/290] Review: [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/slave_0080-2557_1988_num_60_3_5796_t1_0786_0000_2 Sola] (RES 1988). {{fr}}
* Stephen Bann, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3970 ''Traditions of Constructivism''], Viking Press, 1974.
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* ''Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism, 1914-1932'', eds. & intro. Richard Andrews and Milena Kalinovska, New York: Rizzoli, 1990, 276 pp. Twenty-five texts. [http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz024882356inh.pdf TOC]. {{en}}
* John E. Bowlt (ed.), [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2325 ''Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934''], Viking Press, 1976.
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* Halina Stephan, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3955 ''“Lef” and the Left Front of the Arts''], Munich: Otto Sagner, 1981.
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; Book sections
* Kristina Passuth, ''Les avant-gardes de l’Europe Centrale 1907–1927'', Flammarion, 1988, 327 pp.  (French) [http://www.amazon.com/avant-gardes-lEurope-centrale-1907-1927-French/dp/2080120344]
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* "Neo-plasticism and Constructivism: Abstract and Nonobjective Art", ch 6 in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18858 Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics]'', ed. Herschel Browning Chipp, University of California Press, 1968, pp 309-365. {{en}}
* Patricia Railing, ''From Science to Systems of Art: on Russian Abstract Art and Language 1910/1920 and Other Essays'', Artists Bookworks, 1989. [http://books.google.com/books?id=RlstAQAAIAAJ]
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* {{a|Bowlt1976}} "Constructivism and the Industrial Arts", ch. 5 in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2325 Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934]'', ed. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp 205-261. Twelve short texts by Soviet authors from 1920-31. {{en}}
* ''Art Journal'' Vol. 49, No. 1, From Leningrad to Ljubljana: The Suppressed Avant-Gardes of East-Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Twentieth Century (Spring, 1990). [http://www.jstor.org/stable/i231693]
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* "Constructivismo y realismo en Rusia", ch. 12 in ''Escritos de arte de vanguardia 1900/1945'', eds. Francisco Calvo Serraller, Simón Marchán Fiz and Ángel González García, Madrid: Turner, 1979; Madrid: Akal, 1999; 2009, pp 285-352. [http://scribd.com/doc/169332508]. {{es}}
* Ryszard Stanislawski and Christoph Brockhaus (eds.), ''Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa'', exhibition catalogue, Bonn, 1994. Contributions from ca 150 authors. Four volumes: Vol I (five introductory essays followed by 73 short texts on the work of specific artists) 479 pp. incl. 247 col. pls. and 116 b&w ills.; Vol II (36 essays on aspects of architecture, literature, theatre, film and music) 239 pp. incl. 251 b&w ills.; Vol III, compiled by Hubertus Gassner (354 short texts of the period 1894-1994 by artists, critics etc., in German translation), 367 pp.; Vol IV (biographies; selected bibliography; list of exhibited works; index) 99 pp. ISBN 978-3-89322-623-8. [http://www.formerwest.org/ResearchLibrary/EuropaEuropaDasJahrhundertderAvantgardeinMittelundOsteuropa] [http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00010623]
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* {{a|HarrisonWood1992}}  "Utility and Construction", ch. IIId in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=446 Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas]'', eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 308-330. Twelve short texts by Soviet authors from 1919-24. {{en}}
* George Rickey, ''Constructivism: Origins and Evolution'', 1995, [http://www.amazon.com/Constructivism-Origins-Evolution-George-Rickey/dp/0807613819]
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* "Konstruktivismus", ch. in ''Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, 3'', ed. Hubertus Gassner, Bonn, 1994, pp 190-225. Thirty-six short texts by central and eastern European authors from 1920-36. {{de}}
* Susanne Anna (ed.), ''Das Bauhaus im Osten: Slowakische und tschechische Avantgarde 1928-1939'', Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1997. [http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00000729&lang=en] [http://www.gbv.de/dms/hebis-darmstadt/toc/55816851.pdf contents], [http://books.google.com/books/about/Das_Bauhaus_im_Osten.html?id=4sjpAAAAMAAJ], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/40662746 review]
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* in ''Między sztuką a komuną: teksty awangardy rosyjskiej, 1910-1932'', ed. Andrzej Turowski, Kraków: Universitas, 1998. {{pl}}
* Victor Margolin, ''The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946'', University of Chicago Press, 1998. [http://books.google.com/books?id=q93LHoimzjcC]
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* {{a|BensonForgacs2002}} "International Constructivism in Germany and Austria" (ch. 7) & "International Constructivism in Central Europe" (ch. 8), in ''Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930'', eds. Timothy O. Benson and Éva Forgács, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002, pp 385-486 & 487-603. Fourty-four & fifty-four texts from 1920-28 in 10 sections. {{en}}
* John E. Bowlt, Olga Matich, ''Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-Garde & Cultural Experiment'', Stanford University Press, 1999. [http://books.google.com/books?id=JT2sAAAAIAAJ]
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* {{a|Tsivian2004}} "''Kino-Pravda'' and Constructivism", ch. 3 in ''Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties'', ed. & intro. Yuri Tsivian, trans. Julian Graffy, Gemona: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2004, pp 55-65. Six texts. [http://books.google.com/books?id=np9a1YWLE8YC&pg=PA55] {{en}}
* Timothy O. Benson, Éva Forgács (eds.), ''Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930'', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002. [http://artmargins.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=87:behind-the-obscurity-of-the-central-european-avant%20gardes&catid=112:book-reviews&Itemid=104]
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* "Konstruktivizm", ch. in ''[[Media:Shtayn_KE_ed_Tri_veka_russkoy_metapoetiki_Legitimatsiya_diskursa_3_Avangard.pdf|Tri veka russkoy metapoetiki: Legitimatsiya diskursa, 3]]'' [Три века русской метапоэтики: Легитимация дискурса, 3], ed. K.E. Shtayn, Stavropol: Izdatelstvo Stavropolskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2006, pp 475-644. Forty-nine texts of literary constructivism. {{ru}}
* Barrett Watten, ''The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics'', Wesleyan University Press, 2003. [http://books.google.com/books?id=nAKM6ar0juQC]
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* "Constructivismul", ''[[Media:Butnaru_Leo_ed_Manifestele_avangardei_ruse.pdf|Manifestele avantgardei rusei]]'', ed. Leo Butnaru, Bucharest: Biblioteca Bucureştilor, 2012, pp 186-195. Four texts by Soviet authors from 1922-28. {{ro}}
* Dubravka Đurić, Miško Šuvaković (eds.), ''Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991'', MIT Press, 2003. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=9567]
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* {{a|IoffeWhite2012}} "Russian Suprematism and Constructivism", trans. John E. Bowlt, ch. 3 in ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=db640d26543abf27db1015f8265c5602 The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader]'', eds. Dennis G. Ioffe and Frederick H. White, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012, pp 277-293. Three texts by Soviet authors from 1920-23. {{en}}
* Kristina Passuth, ''Treffpunkte der Avantgarden: Ostmitteleuropa 1907–1930'', Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 2003. (German) [http://www.amazon.de/Treffpunkte-Avantgarden-Ostmitteleuropa-1907-1930-Krisztina/dp/3364006059]
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* Maria Gough, ''The Artist As Producer: Russian Constructivism In Revolution'', University of California Press, 2005. [http://books.google.com/books?id=KCJHxeNQuGMC]
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==Anthologised texts==
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?tag=constructivism Publications on constructivism on Monoskop Log]
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''A collection of texts from selected English-language anthologies (ToC = [[#Bann1974|Bann 1974]], RAA = [[#Bowlt1976|Bowlt 1976]], AiT = [[#HarrisonWood1992|Harrison & Wood 1992]], BW = [[#BensonForgacs2002|Benson & Forgács 2002]], LoR = [[#Tsivian2004|Tsivian 2004]]). Links in the fourth column lead to versions of the texts as they appear in the anthologies, together with editorial introductions. The last column represents themes. Most of the columns are sortable.''
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| KOMFUT || 1919 || Program Declaration || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n203/mode/1up RAA], [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n166/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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| Tatlin || 1919 || The Initiative Individual in the Creativity of the Collective || [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n166/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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| Popova || 1919 || statement in the catalogue of the ''Tenth State Exhibition'' || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n185/mode/1up RAA], [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n167/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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|-
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| Gabo; Pevsner || 1920 || The Realistic Manifesto || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n46/mode/1up ToC], [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n247/mode/1up RAA], [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n160/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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|-
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| Tatlin; Shapiro; Meyerzon; Vinogradov || 1920 || The Work Ahead of Us || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n54/mode/1up ToC], [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n244/mode/1up RAA] || Ru
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| Punin || 1920 || The Monument to the Third International || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n57/mode/1up ToC], [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n167/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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|-
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| || 1920 || Program of the Productivist Group || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n61/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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|-
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| {{a|Filippov1921}} Filippov || 1921 || Production Art || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n64/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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| {{a|Toporkov1921}} Toporkov || 1921 || Technological and Artistic Form || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n64/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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| Rodchenko || 1921 || 'Slogans' and 'Organizational Programme' of the Workshop for the Study of Painting in State Art Colleges || [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n169/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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| Gan || 1922 || from ''Constructivism'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n75/mode/1up ToC], [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n253/mode/1up RAA], [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n171/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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| Pertsov || 1922 || At the Junction of Art and Production || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n269/mode/1up RAA] || Ru
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| Rodchenko; Stepanova || 1922 || Programme of the First Working Group of Constructivists || [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n170/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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| Arvatov || 1922 || The Proletariat and Leftist Art || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n264/mode/1up RAA] || Ru
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| {{a|Arvatov1923}} Arvatov || 1923 || from ''Art and Class'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n86/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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| Arvatov || 1923 || Materialized Utopia || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n128/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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| Brik || 1923 || Into Production! || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n126/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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| Brik || 1923 || The So-called 'Formal Method' || [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n173/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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| LEF || 1923 || Whom Is LEF Alerting? || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n123/mode/1up ToC], [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n172/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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| Tatlin || 1923 || On ''Zangezi'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n155/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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| Lissitzky; Ehrenburg || 1922 || The Blockade of Russia Is Coming to an End || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n96/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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| Gan || 1922 || The Tenth ''Kino-Pravda'' || [http://books.google.com/books?id=np9a1YWLE8YC&pg=PA55 LoR] || RuCi
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| Gan || 1922 || The Thirteenth Experiment || [http://books.google.com/books?id=np9a1YWLE8YC&pg=PA56 LoR] || RuCi
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| LEF || 1923 || The Constructivists || LoR || RuCi
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| Kino || 1923 || ''Kino-Pravda'' || LoR || RuCi
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| Izvestiia || 1924 || Goskino and the Capturing of Daily Life || LoR || RuCi
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| Gan || 1924 || Recognition for the ''Kinocs'' || LoR || RuCi
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| || 1922 || A Short Review of the Proceedings || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n101/mode/1up ToC], BW || CIPA
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| Lissitzky; Ehrenberg || 1922 || Statement by the Editors of Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n106/mode/1up ToC], [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n172/mode/1up AiT] || CIPA
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| van Doesburg || 1922 || Statement by the Stijl Group || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n107/mode/1up ToC] || CIPA
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| Richter || 1922 || Statement by the Constructivist Groups of Rumania, Switzerland, Scandinavia, and Germany || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n109/mode/1up ToC] || CIPA
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| van Doesburg; Lissitzky; Richter || 1922 || Statement by the International Faction of Constructivists || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n111/mode/1up ToC], BW || CIPA
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| Kubicki, et al. || 1922 || Manifesto of the Commune || BW || CIPA
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| Kubicki, et al. || 1922 || Second Manifesto of the Commune || BW || CIPA
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| Berlewi || 1922 || The International Exhibition in Düsseldorf || BW || CIPA
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| Kassák, et al. || 1922 || The Stand Taken by the Vienna Ma Group Toward the First Düsseldorf Congress of Progressive Artists || BW || CIPA
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| Shterenberg || 1922 || Foreword in the ''Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Russian Art'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n113/mode/1up ToC] || RuExh
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| Holitscher || 1922 || Statement || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n115/mode/1up ToC] || RuExh
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| || 1922 || from Introduction to ''Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Russian Art'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n118/mode/1up ToC] || RuExh
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| Westheim || 1922 || The Exhibition of Russian Artists || BW || RuExh
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| Behne || 1922 || On the Russian Exhibition || BW || RuExh
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| Kassák || 1922 || The Russian Exhibit in Berlin || BW || RuExh
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| Kallai || 1923 || The Russian Exhibition in Berlin || BW || RuExh
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| Kemeny || 1923 || Notes to the Russian Artists' Exhibition in Berlin || BW || RuExh
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| Poljanski || 1923 || Through the Russian Exhibition in Berlin || BW || RuExh
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| Kassák || 1920 || To the Artists of All Nations! || BW || ExVie
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|  || 1920 || The Provisional Int'l Moscow Bureau of Creative Artists, Questions to the Hungarian Activists, and their Reply || BW || ExVie
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| Kallai || 1921 || Moholy-Nagy || BW || ExVie
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| Kallai || 1921 || Lajos Kassák || BW || ExVie
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| Kassák || 1922 || Picture-Architecture || BW || ExVie
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| Uitz || 1922 || The Great Festival in Moscow || BW || ExVie
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| Kallai || 1923 || Constructivism || BW || ExVie
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| Kallai || 1923 || Correction (to the Attention of ''De Stijl'') || BW || ExVie
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| Kallai, et al. || 1923 || Manifesto || BW || ExVie
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| Lissitzky || 1924 || The Electro-Mechanical Show || BW || ExVie
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| Walden || 1924 || Theater as an Artistic Phenomenon || BW || ExVie
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| Gaspar || 1924 || The Hungarian Activist Movement || BW || ExVie
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| Hausmann; Arp; Puni; Moholy-Nagy || 1921 || A Call for Elementarist Art || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n94/mode/1up ToC], BW || Ber
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| Mattis-Teutsch || 1921 || statement from ''Der Sturm'' catalogue || BW || Ber
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| Moholy-Nagy; Kemeny || 1922 || Dynamic-Constructive System of Forces || BW || Ber
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| Hausmann; Peri || 1922 || Aims of the Pre??? Theater || BW || Ber
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| Berlewi || 1922-23 || The Arts Abroad || BW || Ber
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| Kemeny || 1923 || Constructivist Art and Peri's Spatial Constructions || BW || Ber
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| Eggeling; Hausmann || 1923 || Second Presentist Declaration - Addressed to the International Constructivists || BW || Ber
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| Kemeny || 1923 || The Dynamic Principle of Cosmic Construction, as Related to the Functional Significance of Constructive Design || BW || Ber
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| Kemeny || 1924 || Abstract Design from Suprematism to the Present || BW || Ber
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| Richter || 1924 || G || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n136/mode/1up ToC] || Ber
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| Hilberseimer || 1924 || Construction and Form || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n161/mode/1up ToC] || Ber
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| Richter || 1924 || Prague || BW || Ber
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| Richter || 1924 || Toward Constructivism || BW || Ber
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| Tzara || 1924 || Photography in Reverse || BW || Ber
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| Braun || 1925 || Concrete Light || BW || Ber
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| Moholy-Nagy || 1922 || Production-Reproduction || BW || Bau
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| Molnar || 1922 || KURI Manifesto || BW || Bau
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| Schlemmer || 1923 || Bauhaus Manifesto || BW || Bau
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| Moholy-Nagy || 1924 || Film Sketch: Dynamics of a Metropolis || BW || Bau
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| Molnar || 1925 || Life at the Bauhaus || BW || Bau
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| Moholy-Nagy || 1926 || Film at the Bauhaus: a Rejoinder || BW || Bau
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| Kallai || 1928 || Herwarth Walden || BW || Bau
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| Moholy-Nagy || 1928 || Letter of Resignation from the Bauhaus || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n178/mode/1up ToC] || Bau
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| Micić || 1922 || Shimmy at the Latin Quarter Graveyard || BW || Yu
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| Micić || 1922 || A Categorical Imperative of the Zenithist School of Poetry || BW || Yu
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| Micić || 1924 || Barbarogenius || BW || Yu
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| Micić || 1924 || The New Art || BW || Yu
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| Micić || 1924 || Zenithosophy: Or the Energetics of Creative Zenithism || BW || Yu
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| Ratkovic || 1925 || Barbarism as Culture || BW || Yu
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| Raith || 1926 || Toward the Documentation of the European Cultural Crisis: Five Years of Zenithism || BW || Yu
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| Poljanski || 1926 || Upside Down || BW || Yu
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| Micić || 1926 || Beyond-Sense Poetry || BW || Yu
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| Micić || 1926 || Zenithism through the Prism of Marxism || BW || Yu
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| Janco || 1922 || Notes on Painting || BW || Buc
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| Janco || 1924 || Art Notes || BW || Buc
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| Voronca || 1924 || Victor Brauner || BW || Buc
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| Voronca || 1924 || Aviograma || BW || Buc
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| Voronca || 1924 || untitled statement || BW || Buc
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| Brauner; Voronca || 1924 || Pictopoetry || BW || Buc
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| Voronca || 1924 || Assessments || BW || Buc
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| Callimachi || 1924 || The ''Contimporanul'' Exhibition (Notes) || BW || Buc
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| Vianu || 1924 || The First ''Contimporanul'' International Exhibition || BW || Buc
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| Voronca || 1924 || Marcel Janco || BW || Buc
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| Maxy || 1924 || Visual Chrono-metering || BW || Buc
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| Aderca || 1925 || Conversations with Lucian Blaga || BW || Buc
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| Voronca || 1925 || Grammar || BW || Buc
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| Voronca || 1925 || Voices || BW || Buc
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| Cisek || 1925 || The International Exhibition Organized by the Magazine ''Contimporanul'' || BW || Buc
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| Integral || 1925 || Man || BW || Buc
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| Voronca || 1925 || Surrealism and Integralism || BW || Buc
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| Cosma || 1925 || From Futurism to Integralism || BW || Buc
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| Michailescu || 1925 || Black Art || BW || Buc
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| Petrascu || 1925 || Note about Sculpture || BW || Buc
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| Jacques || 1926 || Initiation in the Mysteries of an Exhibition: The Sensational Pronouncements of Militsa Petrascu and Marcel Janco || BW || Buc
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| Janco || 1926 || Cubism || BW || Buc
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|-
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| Janco || 1927 || Coloring || BW || Buc
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|-
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| Bogza || 1928 || Urmuz || BW || Buc
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|-
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| Bonset || 1923 || Toward a Constructive Poetry || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n152/mode/1up ToC] || NL
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|-
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| van Doesburg || 1923 || Elemental Formation || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n134/mode/1up ToC] || NL
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|-
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| van Doesburg; van Eesteren || 1923 || Toward a Collective Construction || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n158/mode/1up ToC] || NL
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|-
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| || 1923 || Picture || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n140/mode/1up ToC] || Prag
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|-
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| Teige || 1924 || Poetism || BW || Prag
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|-
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| Teige || 1925 || Constructivism and the Liquidation of Art || BW || Prag
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|-
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| Styrsky; Toyen || 1927-28 || Artificialism || BW || Prag
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|-
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| Styrsky; Toyen || 1927-28 || The Poet || BW || Prag
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|-
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| Teige || 1928 || Poetism Manifesto || BW || Prag
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|-
 +
| Teige || 1928 || Ultraviolet Paintings, or, Artificialism (Notes on the Paintings of Styrsky and Toyen) || BW || Prag
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|-
 +
| Berlewi || 1924 || Mechano-facture || BW || Pol
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|-
 +
| Blok || 1924 || Editorial Statement || BW || Pol
 +
|-
 +
| Stażewski || 1924 || untitled statements on Suprematism and painting || BW || Pol
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|-
 +
| Strzemiński || 1924 || Theses on New Art || BW || Pol
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|-
 +
| Szczuka || 1924 || An Attempt to Explain the Misunderstandings Related to the Public's Attitude to New Art || BW || Pol
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|-
 +
| Blok || 1924 || What Constructivism Is || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n146/mode/1up ToC], BW || Pol
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|-
 +
| Strzemiński || 1924 || B=2 || BW || Pol
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|-
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| Szczuka || 1924 || Photomontage || BW || Pol
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|-
 +
| Stażewski || 1924 || On Abstract Art || BW || Pol
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|-
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| AARA || 1924 || Concretists || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n276/mode/1up RAA] || Ru
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|-
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| AARA || 1924 || The Projectionist Group || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n276/mode/1up RAA] || Ru
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|-
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| AARA || 1924 || The First Working Group of Constructivists || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n276/mode/1up RAA] || Ru
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|-
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| AARA || 1924 || The First Working Group of Artists || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n276/mode/1up RAA] || Ru
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|-
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| Brik || 1924 || From Pictures to Textile Prints || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n283/mode/1up RAA], [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n174/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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|-
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| Literary Center of Constructivists || 1924 || The Basic Tenets of Constructivism || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n166/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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|-
 +
| Tatlin || 1924 || Report of the Section for Material Culture's Research Work for 1924 || [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n176/mode/1up AiT] || Ru
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|-
 +
| Gan || 1928 || Constructivism in the Cinema || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n170/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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|-
 +
| Rodchenko || 1928 || Against the Synthetic Portrait, For the Snapshot || [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n289/mode/1up RAA] || Ru
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|-
 +
| Lissitzky || 1930 || from ''Russia: The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n180/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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|-
 +
| {{a|Chernikov1931}} Chernikov || 1931 || from ''The Construction of Architectural and Mechanical Forms'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n191/mode/1up ToC], [http://archive.org/stream/RussianArtOfAvantGarde/RAA#page/n293/mode/1up RAA] || Ru
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|-
 +
| {{a|Gollerbakh1931}} Gollerbakh || 1931 || Introduction to Chernikov's ''The Construction of Architectural and Mechanical Forms'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n191/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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|-
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| Tatlin || 1932 || Art Out into Technology || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n213/mode/1up ToC] || Ru
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|-
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| Cernigoj || 1927 || Greetings! || BW || Lju
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|-
 +
| Polic || 1927 || Marij Kogoj's Black Masks || BW || Lju
 +
|-
 +
| Delak || 1927 || Theater Co-op || BW || Lju
 +
|-
 +
| Cernigoj || 1927 || Tank Manifesto || BW || Lju
 +
|-
 +
| Cernigoj || 1927 || The Constructivist Group in Trieste || BW || Lju
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|-
 +
| Seuphor || 1930 || In Defense of an Architecture || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n220/mode/1up ToC] ||
 +
|-
 +
| Carlsund; van Doesburg; Hélion; Tutundjian; Wantz || 1930 || The Basis of Concrete Painting || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n234/mode/1up ToC] ||
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|-
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| Torres-García || 1933 || The Constructive Art Group — Joint Collaborative Work || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n237/mode/1up ToC] ||
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|-
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| Gorin || 1936 || The Aim of Constructive Plastic Art || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n242/mode/1up ToC] ||
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|-
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| || 1937 || Editorial in ''Circle — International Survey of Constructive Art'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n246/mode/1up ToC] || Circ
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|-
 +
| Gabo || 1937 || The Constructive Idea in Art || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n247/mode/1up ToC], [http://archive.org/stream/ArtInTheory/AIT#page/n194/mode/1up AiT] || Circ
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|-
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| Gabo || 1942 || Letter to Herbert Read || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n257/mode/1up ToC] || Circ
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|-
 +
| Biederman || 1948 || from ''Art as the Evolution of Visual Knowledge'' || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n266/mode/1up ToC]
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|-
 +
| Gabo || 1948 || On Constructive Realism || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n277/mode/1up ToC]
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|-
 +
| Schöffer || 1960 || Spatiodynamism, Luminodynamism, and Chronodynamism || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n291/mode/1up ToC]
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|-
 +
| Vasarely || 1965 || Planetary Folklore || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n301/mode/1up ToC]
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|-
 +
| Hill || 1959 || On Constructions, Nature, and Structure || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n311/mode/1up ToC] || Str
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|-
 +
| Lohse || 1961 || A Step Farther — New Problems in Constructive Plastic Expression || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n320/mode/1up ToC] || Str
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|-
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| Baljeu || 1964 || The Constructive Approach Today || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n330/mode/1up ToC] || Str
 +
|-
 +
| Martin || 1964 || Construction from Within || [http://archive.org/stream/TraditionOfConstructivism/TOC#page/n326/mode/1up ToC] || Str
 +
|}
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</div>
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 +
{{a|SectionsAbbr}}
 +
; Abbreviations of themes:
 +
''Bau'' = The Bauhaus; ''Ber'' = Berlin; ''Buc'' = Bucharest; ''CIPA'' = statements from and reaction to the Congress of International Progressive Artists, Düsseldorf; ''Circ'' = Circle; ''ExVie'' = Exile Vienna; ''Lju'' = Ljubljana; ''Pol'' = Poland; ''Prag'' = Prague; ''Ru'' = Russia; ''RuCi'' = Russian cinema; ''RuExh'' = First Russian Exhibition in Berlin; ''Str'' = Structure; ''Yu'' = Zagreb/Belgrade.
 +
 
 +
==Historical studies and analyses==
 +
''See also [[#Exhibitions.2C_conferences|catalogues of retrospective exhibitions]], [[#Books_and_pamphlets_of_theory_and_criticism|introductions and commentaries to translations of primary books]], [[#Anthologies.2C_readers.2C_sourcebooks|introductions in anthologies and readers]], and [[#Artists.2C_groups.2C_theorists|bibliographies on pages of respective artists, groups and theorists]].''
 +
 
 +
<div class="dpl" style="-moz-column-count:3; -webkit-column-count:3; column-count:3; font-size: .9em">
 +
===Russian===
 +
* N.A. Nikonov (В.А. Никонов), ''Staty o konstruktivistakh'' [Статьи о конструктивистах], Ulyanovsk: Strezhen, 1928, 102 pp.
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* ''Tekhnicheskaia estetika (Trudy VNIITE)'' [Technical Aesthetics (Transactions of the VNIITE], Moscow: Dept of the History and Theory of Design/VNIITE, 1964-92. Journal. [http://magzdb.org/j/4564 Selected numbers from 1986-92].
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* S.O. Khan-Magomedov (С.О. Хан-Магомедов), ''INKhUK i ranniy konstruktivizm'' [ИНХУК и ранний конструктивизм: научное издание], Moscow: Architectura, 1994, 248 pp.
 +
* E.V. Sidorina (Е.В. Сидорина), ''Russkiy konstruktivizm: idei, istoki, praktika'' [Русский конструктивизм: Идеи, истоки, практика], Moscow: n.p., 1995, 240 pp.
 +
* G.V. Titova (Г.В. Титова), ''[http://teatr-lib.ru/Library/Titova/konstr/ Tvorcheskiy teatr i teatralnyy konstruktivizm]'' [Творческий театр и театральный конструкти­визм], St Petersburg: St Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts, 1995, 255 pp.
 +
* Alexander Lavrentiev, ''Laboratoriia konstruktivizma'', Moscow: Grant, 2000.
 +
* O.V. Akhmatova, ''Russkii konstruktivizm (opyt sotsial'no-filosofskogo analiza)'', Moscow: Sputnik, 2001.
 +
* Mariya Zalambani (Мария Заламбани), ''[http://academia.edu/6747889/ Iskusstvo v proizvodstve: avangard i revolyutsiya v Sovetskoy Rossii 20-kh godov]'' [Искусство в производстве: Авангард и революция в Советской России 20-х годов] [1998], trans. N.B. Kardanov (Н.Б.Карданов), Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2003, 240 pp.
 +
* S.O. Khan-Magomedov (С.О. Хан-Магомедов), ''Konstruktivizm. Kontseptsiya formoobrazovaniya'' [Конструктивизм — концепция формообразования], Moscow: Stroyizdat [Стройиздат], 2003, 576 pp. [http://www.nisso.net/shosai/hankonst1.htm TOC].
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* S.O. Khan-Magomedov (С.О. Хан-Магомедов), ''Aleksandr Vesnin i konstruktivizm. Zhivopis', teatr, arkhitektura, risunok, knizhnaia grafika, oformlenie prazdnikov'' [Александр Веснин и конструктивизм], Moscow: Architectura, 2007, 412 pp.
 +
* E.V. Barkhatova (Е.В. Бархатова), [http://expositions.nlr.ru/construct/text1.php "Russkiy konstrukivizm 1920-kh - 1930-kh godov"] [Русский конструктивизм 1920-х - 1930-х годов], ''nlr.ru'' (Russian National Library), 2010.
 +
* E.V. Sidorina (Е.В. Сидорина), ''Konstruktivizm bez beregov. Issledovaniya i etydy o russkom avangarde'' [Конструктивизм без берегов. Исследования и этюды о русском авангарде], Moscow: Progress-Traditsiya, 2012, 656 pp.
 +
 
 +
===English===
 +
* George Rickey, ''Constructivism: Origins and Evolution'', New York: G. Braziller, 1967, xi+306 pp; rev.ed., 1995, xi+306 pp.
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* ''Constructivism in Poland 1923-1936: BLOK, Praesens, a.r.'', Lodz: Muzeum Sztuki, 1973, 208 pp. Catalogue. [http://page-spread.com/constructivism-in-poland-1923-1936-blok-praesens-a-r/] Review: [http://www.negroartist.com/writings/The%20Afro-American%20Artist.pdf Werner]. {{en}},{{nl}},{{de}}
 +
* Willy Rotzler, ''Constructive Concepts: A History of Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present'', London: Academy Editions, 1977, 299 pp.
 +
* Margit Rowell, [http://archive.org/stream/artofavantgardei00rowe#page/15/mode/1up "New Insights into Soviet Constructivism: Painting, Constructions, Production Art"], in ''Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection'', New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1981, pp 15-32.
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* [http://archive.org/stream/artofavantgardei00rowe#page/198/mode/1up "The Inkhuk and Constructivism"], in ''Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection'', New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1981, pp 198-258. Catalogue of works.
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* Christina Lodder, ''Russian Constructivism'', Yale University Press, 1983, viii+328 pp. Reviews: [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v06/n20/john-willett/liberation Willett] (LRB 1984), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3051032 Mudrak] (AB 1987).
 +
* S.O. Khan-Magomedov, ''Alexander Vesnin and Russian Constructivism'', New York: Rizzoli, 1986.
 +
* Patricia Railing, ''From Science to Systems of Art: on Russian Abstract Art and Language 1910/1920, and Other Essays'', Artists Bookworks, 1989, 154 pp. [http://artistsbookworks.co.uk/from-science-to-systems-in-art/]. Review: [http://www.jstor.org.sci-hub.tw/stable/40921397 Stupples] (NZSJ 1991).
 +
* Briony Fer, [http://kirkbrideplan.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/metaphor-and-modernity-russian-constructivism.pdf "Metaphor and Modernity: Russian Constructivism"], ''Oxford Art Journal'' 12:1 (1989), pp 14-30.
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* ''Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism, 1914-1932'', eds. & intro. Richard Andrews and Milena Kalinovska, New York: Rizzoli, 1990, 276 pp. [http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz024882356inh.pdf TOC]. On the occasion of a travelling exhibition. Essays by Strigalev, Khan-Magomedov, Lodder, Senkevitch Jr., Bann, Andel, Foster.
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* Christina Lodder, [[Media:Lodder_Christina_1992_The_Transition_to_Constructivism.pdf|"The Transition to Constructivism"]], in ''[http://archive.org/stream/grerussi00schi The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932]'', New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1992, pp 266-281.
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* Hubertus Gassner, [[Media:Gassner_Hubertus_1992_The_Constructivists_Modernism_on_the_Way_to_Modernization.pdf|"The Constructivists. Modernism on the Way to Modernization"]], in ''[http://archive.org/stream/grerussi00schi The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932]'', New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1992, pp 298-319.
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* Briony Fer, [[Media:Fer_Briony_1993_The_Language_of_Construction_87-115_of_169.pdf|"The Language of Construction"]], ch 2 in Fer, Batchelor, Wood, ''Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars'', Yale University Press, 1993, pp 87-169.
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* Victor Margolin, ''The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946'', University of Chicago Press, 1998, 276 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=q93LHoimzjcC&printsec=frontcover]
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* Roann Barris, [[Media:Barris_Roann_1999_Russian_Constructivist_Architecture_as_an_Urban_Carnival.pdf|"Russian Constructivist Architecture as an Urban Carnival: The Creation and Reception of a Utopian Narrative"]], ''Utopian Studies'' 10:1 (1999), pp 42-67.
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* Christina Kiaer, [[Media:Kiaer_Christina_2001_The_Russian_Constructivist_Flapper_Dress.pdf|"The Russian Constructivist Flapper Dress"]], ''Critical Inquiry'' 28(1): "Things" (Autumn 2001), pp 185-243.
 +
* Eva Forgacs, "Between Cultures: Hungarian Concepts of Constructivism", in ''Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930'', ed. Timothy O. Benson, MIT Press/Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002, pp 146-164.
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* Christina Lodder, "Art into Life: International Constructivism in Central and Eastern Europe", in ''Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930'', ed. Timothy O. Benson, MIT Press/Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002, pp 172-198.
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* Barrett Watten, ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/52b64315307888e24200001d The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics]'', Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
 +
* {{a|Gough2005}} Maria Gough, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11816 The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution]'', University of California Press, 2005, xi+257 pp. Reviews: [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/00043249.2006.10791219 Wood] (AJ 2006), [http://muse.jhu.edu.sci-hub.tw/journals/modernism-modernity/v013/13.2douglas.html Douglas] (MM 2006), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2005.00390.x Valkenier] (RR 2006), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/20060273 Railing] (SR 2007), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/20459506 Greenfield] (SEEJ 2007), [http://www.radford.edu/~rbarris/review%20of%20Gough%20and%20Kiaer.pdf Barris] (SECACr 2007).
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* Christina Lodder, ''Constructive Strands in Russian Art'', London: Pindar Press, 2005, ix+589 pp. Collected essays by the author. [http://worldcat.org/oclc/51991931 TOC].
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* {{a|Kiaer2005}} Christina Kiaer, ''Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism'', MIT Press, 2005, xvii+326 pp. [http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-col/Record/col_367003/TOC TOC], [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/imagine-no-possessions]. Reviews: [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/00043249.2006.10791219 Wood] (AJ 2006), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/j.1467-8357.2006.00709.x Doy] (AB 2006), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/20060274 Aulich] (SR 2007), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1093/jdh/epl043 Reid] (JDH 2007), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2008.00596.x Bader] (AH 2008), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2008.00506.x Apkarian] (RR 2008), [http://www.sehepunkte.de/2008/07/10681.html Nieslony] (Sehepunkte 2008), [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/19409419.2014.917938 Nguyen] (RJC 2014).
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* Kristin Romberg, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14954 Aleksei Gan's Constructivism, 1917-1928]'', New York: Columbia University, 2010, 576 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation.
 +
* Christine Schick, ''[http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1525999172.html?FMT=ABS Russian Constructivist Theory and Practice in the Visual and Verbal Forms of "Pro Eto"]'', Berkeley: University of California, 2011, 178 pp. Dissertation.
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* ''[http://afterlivesofconstructivism.wordpress.com/ "Illusions Killed by Life": Afterlives of (Soviet) Constructivism]'', Princeton University, 2013. Conference proceedings.
 +
* Roann Barris, [http://muse.jhu.edu.secure.sci-hub.tw/article/502523 "The Life of the Constructivist Theatrical Object"], ''Theatre Journal'' 65:1 (March 2013).
 +
* Brandon Taylor, ''After Constructivism'', Yale University Press, 2014, 292 pp. [http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300195774/after-constructivism]
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* Kamila Kuc, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5EFC211678CDC792A35282BEB5B74C6B ''Visions of Avant-Garde Film: Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism''], Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2016.
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* Catherine Walworth, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/FB3VIWCklLuDqyFSEPgZswx3OyI97w2wycV5noXwWnGa1len Soviet Salvage: Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism]'', Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017, 231 pp.
 +
 
 +
; Dictionary entries on Constructivism
 +
* [[Media:Scharf_Aaron_1966_1994_Constructivism.pdf|Aaron Scharf 1966/1994]]
 +
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=mwf6RVGYLjgC&pg=PA151 Chilvers & Glaves-Smith 2009].
 +
 
 +
===German===
 +
* Willy Rotzler, ''Konstruktive Konzepte: eine Geschichte der konstruktiven Kunst vom Kubismus bis heute'', Zurich: ABC, 1977, 299 pp; new ed., 1988, 332 pp; 3rd ed., 1995, 332 pp.
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* Rainer Georg Grübel, ''Russischer Konstruktivismus. Künstlerische Konzeptionen, literarische Theorie und kultureller Kontext'', Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1981, 263 pp. [http://www.nanoaesthetik.de/texte/konstruktivismus_gruebel.pdf Excerpt], [http://books.google.com/books?id=iHN92LIfYqUC&printsec=frontcover].
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* Lothar Lang, ''Konstruktivismus und Buchkunst'', Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1990, 208 pp. [http://tocs.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/16197305.pdf TOC].
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* Kristina Passuth, ''Treffpunkte der Avantgarden: Ostmitteleuropa 1907–1930'' [1988], trans. Aniko Harmath, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 2003, 337 pp. {{de}} Review: [http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-4877 Dmitrieva-Einhorn] (H-Soz-Kult 2006).
 +
 
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===Polish===
 +
* Andrzej Turowski, ''W kręgu konstruktiwizmu'', Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1979, 288 pp.
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* Andrzej Turowski, ''Konstruktywizm polski: próba rekonstrukcji nurtu, 1921-1934'', Wroclaw: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1981, 360 pp. Review: [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/fha1985/0181 Gryglewicz] (FHA 1985).
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===Spanish===
 +
* Christina Lodder, ''El constructivismo ruso'' [1983], trans. María Cóndor Orduña, Madrid: Alianza, 1988, viii+327 pp.
 +
* Claude Leclanche-Boulé, ''Tipografías y fotomontajes: constructivismo en la URSS'' [1984], trans. Rosa Vercher González, intro. Juan Manuel Bonet, Valencia: Campgràfic, 2003, 273 pp.
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===French===
 +
* Claude Leclanche-Boulé, ''Typographies et photomontages constructivistes en URSS'', Paris: Papyrus, 1984, 173 pp; new ed. as ''Le constructivisme russe: typographies & photomontages'', Paris: Flammarion, 1991, 173 pp.
 +
* Kristina Passuth, ''Les avant-gardes de l'Europe Centrale, 1907-1927'', Paris: Flammarion, 1988, 327 pp. 
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* François Albéra, ''Eisenstein et le constructivisme russe'', Lausanne: L'Âge d'homme, 1990. [http://books.google.com/books?id=_YcrvS_dDv4C&printsec=frontcover]
 +
* Valerie Camden, ''[http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27052/27052.pdf L'influence du proletkult sur la théorie et la pratique constructivistes]'', Quebec: Université Laval, 2010, 147 pp. Dissertation.
 +
* Gérard Conio, ''Dépassements constructivistes: Taraboukine, Axionov, Eisenstein'', Lausanne: L'Âge d'homme, 2011, 396 pp. [http://opac.nebis.ch/objects/pdf/z01_978-2-8251-3687-4_01.pdf TOC].
 +
 
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===Hungarian===
 +
* Kristina Passuth, ''Avantgarde kapcsolatok Prágától Bukarestig 1907-1930'' [1988], Budapest: Balassi, 1998, 381 pp.
 +
 
 +
===Turkish===
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* Victor Margolin, ''Ütopya mücadelesi: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946'' [1998], trans. M. Emir Uslu, Istanbul: Espas Sanat Kuram Yayınları, 2012, 286 pp.
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* Maria Zalambani, ''L'arte nella produzione: avanguardia e rivoluzione nella Russia sovietica degli anni '20'', Ravenna: Longo, 1998, 258 pp.
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?tag=constructivism Publications on constructivism at Monoskop Log]
  
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* ''Away From All Suns!'', dir. Isa Willinger, 2013, 74 min. On constructivist architecture of the 1920s. [http://awayfromallsuns.de/de/the_film/] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2709314/]
  
 
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Second Spring Exhibition of OBMOKhU, Moscow, May-June 1921. Constructions by Alexander Rodchenko, Konstantin Medunetsky, Karl Ioganson, Georgii Stenberg and Vladimir Stenberg; two have been preserved: Medunetsky's Spatial Construction and Rodchenko's Oval Hanging Spatial Construction no. 12.
A timeline of constructivism from Bann 1974: xviii.

A resource on constructivism, focusing primarily on the movement in Russia and east-central Europe from the late 1910s through the 1930s.

The page contains an overview of major exhibitions and catalogues, selection of works, list of (digitised) magazines, pamphlets and books, anthologies of texts (also merged into a single table), historical studies and analyses, and profiles of artists, theorists and groups.

First published 25 September 2015.

Events

Exhibition catalogues

Some of the catalogues are available online, follow PDF links in captions.

Exhibitions, conferences

Second Spring Exhibition of OBMOKhU, Moscow, May-Jun 1921.
Congress of International Progressive Artists, Düsseldorf, May 1922. L-R: unknown boy, Werner Graeff, Raoul Hausmann, Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren, Hans Richter, Nelly van Doesburg, unknown (De Pistoris?), El Lissitzky, Ruggero Vasari, Otto Freundlich (?), Hannah Höch, Franz Seiwert and Stanislav Kubicki.
Congress of the Constructivists and Dadaists, Weimar, Sep 1922. Top-bottom L-R: 1st row: Lucia Moholy, Alfréd Kemény, László Moholy-Nagy. 2nd row: Lotte Burchartz, El Lissitzky, Cornelis van Eesteren, Bernhard Sturtzkopf. 3rd row: Max Burchartz, Harry Scheibe, Theo van Doesburg (with paper hat), Hans Vogel, Peter Röhl. 4th row: Alexa Röhl, Nelly van Doesburg, Tristan Tzara, Sophie Taeuber, Hans Arp. 5th row: Werner Graeff and Hans Richter. Stedelijk.
  • Constructivists [Конструктивисты] exhibition in Moscow, January 1922. Stenberg brothers and Medunetsky show 61 constructivist works and publish a catalogue with manifesto. [2]
  • The Congress of International Progressive Artists [Kongress der Union Internationaler Fortschrittlicher Künstler] in Düsseldorf on 29-31 May 1922. Formation of the International Faction of Constructivists was organised by van Doesburg (representing the journal De Stijl), Richter (representing 'the Constructivist groups of Romania, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Germany') and Lissitzky (representing the editorial board of Veshch'-Gegenstand-Objet). The faction's declaration was later published in De Stijl (no. 4, 1922).
  • Congress of the Constructivists and Dadaists, Weimar, 25-26 September 1922.
  • The First Russian Art Exhibition [Erste russische Kunstausstellung] opened at Galerie van Diemen in Berlin on 15 October 1922, with over 1,000 objects by c180 artists: 237 paintings, more than 500 graphic works, sculptures, as well as designs for theater, architectural models, and porcelain. The exhibition's official host was the Russian Ministry for Information, and it was put together by the artists Gabo, David Sterenberg, and Nathan Altman. Version of the exhibition later travelled to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in April-May 1923.
  • New Art Exhibition [Wystawa Nowej Sztuki], organised by Strzemiński and Kairiūkštis in Vilnius on May-June 1923. The works included painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, scenography, and print; cubist, constructivist, and suprematist compositions predominated. The 7 exhibiting artists went on to form the Blok collective.
  • The Block of Cubists, Constructivists and Supermatists [Blok Kubistów, Suprematystów i Konstruktywistów], an exhibition of Blok at the Laurin & Clement car dealer's shop in Warsaw, March 1924. Works by 9 artists.
  • First Zenit International Exhibition of New Art [Прва Зенитова међународна изложба нове уметности], organised by Micić in April 1924 in Belgrade. Featured one hundred works advertised as "futurism, cubism, expressionism, ornamental cubism, suprematism, constructivism, neoclassicism and the like".
  • The First Contimporanul International Exhibition organised by Contimporanul magazine in November 1924 in Bucharest brought together the Romanian avant-garde along with international artists.
  • The a.r. International Collection of Modern Art, donated by a.r. group to the Municipal Museum of History and Art (now Museum of Art; Museum Sztuki) in Łódź, opened to the public in February 1931. It included 111 works and represented - as no other contemporary European collection had done - the main movements of avant-garde art, from Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism, through Purism and Surrealism, to Neo-Plasticism, Unism and Formism.
  • The Constructivists [Die Konstruktivisten] exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, Jan-Feb 1937. Poster. Review.
Retrospective exhibitions
  • Constructivism in Poland 1923-1936: BLOK, Praesens, a.r., Museum Folkwang, Essen, May-Jun 1973. Also shown in Otterlo/NL 1973; Stockholm 1975-76, New York 1976 [3], Detroit 1976, Buffalo 1976, Montreal 1977, Rome 1979, Genoa 1979, Venice 1979, Belgrade 1979, Zagreb 1979, Cambridge 1984, London 1984, Oxford 1984, Budapest 1990, Washington 1993. [4]
  • Konstruktywizm w Polsce 1923-1936, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, May 1978, Catalogue.
  • The Planar Dimension: Europe, 1912-1932, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1979. Curated by Margit Rowell. Catalogue published.
  • Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 27 May - 16 October 1994. Large-scale exhibition with constructivist section. 4-volume catalogue published.
  • Central European Avant-Gardes, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002. Curated by Timothy O. Benson. Large-scale exhibition with constructivist section. Catalogue published: TOC.
  • Von Kandinsky bis Tatlin: Konstruktivismus in Europa/From Kandinsky to Tatlin: Constructivism in Europe, Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, and Kunstmuseum, Bonn, 2006. Catalogue published.

Paintings, constructions, designs, models (selection)

Film

Magazines

Artists, groups, theorists

Books and pamphlets of theory and criticism

  • Naum Gabo (Н. Габо), Nathan Pevsner (Нотон Певзнер), Realisticheskii manifest [Реалистический манифест], Moscow: Second State Printing House, 5 Aug 1920, 1 sheet (58.8x73.6 cm — edition of 5000). Manuscript. Issued as a poster to accompany the artists' joint open-air exhibition on Tverskoie Boulevard. Points out the limitations of cubism and futurism, outlining the principles for a new sculptural technique; in the 1923 version for G compressed into four points: the importance of life as the starting point for art, the emphasis on space and time, the rejection of mass, and the espousal of kinetic rhythms as a means of expressing time. Written by Gabo, signed also by Pevzner. Issued as a poster to accompany the artists' joint open-air exhibition on Tverskoie Boulevard, which opened 6 Aug. In a note written ca. in the 1970s, Gabo stated that the manifesto poster was stuck up all over Moscow by students from the Vkhutemas (at this point still the Free Studios) on the second day of the exhibition, 7 Aug. 1967 recording of Gabo reading the manifesto. Discussed in Lodder 1983: 38-40, Khan-Magomedov 1996 (RU). (Russian)
    • "The Realistic Manifesto", trans. Naum Gabo, in Gabo: Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, London: Lund Humphries, 1957, pp 151-152; repr. in The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, pp 5-11; repr. in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, ed. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp 208-214; repr. in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 297-299. (English)
    • more translations
  • Aleksei Gan (Алексей Ган), Konstruktivizm [Конструктивизм], Tver: Tverskoe izdatelstvo, Summer 1922, 70 pp (23,5х19,9 cm — edition of 2000). (Russian)
    • "Constructivism" [Extracts], trans. John Bowlt, in The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, pp 32-42; repr. in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, ed. & trans. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp 214-225; repr. in Art in Theory, 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 318-320. (English)
    • Constructivism, trans. & intro. Christina Lodder, Barcelona: Tenov Books, 2014, xciii+77 pp. [5] Reviews: Rees (RAC 2014), Taplin (RBTH 2014), Hatherley (RP 2015), Rosenfeld (SEER 2015). (English)
    • more translations
  • Moisei Ginzburg (М.Я. Гинзбург), Stil' i epokha [Стиль и эпоха. Проблемы современной архитектуры], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo, 1924, 238 pp. Excerpts. Discussed in Khan-Magomedov. (Russian)
    • Style and Epoch, intro. & trans. Anatole Senkevitch, Jr., foreword Kenneth Frampton, MIT Press (Oppositions Books), 1982, 160 pp. (English)
  • Yakov Chernikhov (Яков Чернихов), Konstruktsiya arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykh form [Конструкция архитектурных и машинных форм; The Construction of Architectural and Mechanical Forms], intro. Erik Fedorovich Gollerbakh, Leningrad: Ob-vo arkhitektorov, 1931, 232+[2] pp (30х21,3 cm — edition of 5150). (Russian)
  • Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński, Kompozycja przestrzeni. Obliczenia rytmu czasoprzestrzennego [Spatial Composition: Calculating the Spacetime Rhythm], Łódź: a.r. (Biblioteka a.r., 2), 1931, 79+[32] pp; repr., intro. Janusz Zagrodzki, Łódź: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Książki, 1974; repr., Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 1993. Excerpt. (Polish)

Anthologies, readers, sourcebooks

Constructivismo, 1973, PDF. (Spanish)
Stephen Bann (ed.), The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. Stephen Bann, 1974, Log, PDF.
Books
  • Constructivismo, trans. F. Fernández Buey, Madrid: Alberto Corazón, 1973, viii+374 pp. Twenty-nine texts by Soviet authors in 3+1 sections. (Spanish)
  • The Tradition of Constructivism, ed. & intro. Stephen Bann, New York: Viking Press, 1974, xlix+334 pp, PDF. Fifty-one texts from 1920-65 in 7 sections. Review: Compton (SR 1975). (English)
  • Le constructivisme russe. I. Les arts plastiques. II. Le constructivisme littéraire, 2 vols., ed. & intro. Gérard Conio, trans. Gérard Conio and Larissa Yakoupova, Lausanne: L'Age l'Homme, 1987, 482 & 228 pp. [6] [7] [8] [9] Review: Sola (RES 1988). (French)
  • Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism, 1914-1932, eds. & intro. Richard Andrews and Milena Kalinovska, New York: Rizzoli, 1990, 276 pp. Twenty-five texts. TOC. (English)
Book sections
  • "Neo-plasticism and Constructivism: Abstract and Nonobjective Art", ch 6 in Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, ed. Herschel Browning Chipp, University of California Press, 1968, pp 309-365. (English)
  • "Constructivism and the Industrial Arts", ch. 5 in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934, ed. John E. Bowlt, New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp 205-261. Twelve short texts by Soviet authors from 1920-31. (English)
  • "Constructivismo y realismo en Rusia", ch. 12 in Escritos de arte de vanguardia 1900/1945, eds. Francisco Calvo Serraller, Simón Marchán Fiz and Ángel González García, Madrid: Turner, 1979; Madrid: Akal, 1999; 2009, pp 285-352. [10]. (Spanish)
  • "Utility and Construction", ch. IIId in Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp 308-330. Twelve short texts by Soviet authors from 1919-24. (English)
  • "Konstruktivismus", ch. in Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, 3, ed. Hubertus Gassner, Bonn, 1994, pp 190-225. Thirty-six short texts by central and eastern European authors from 1920-36. (German)
  • in Między sztuką a komuną: teksty awangardy rosyjskiej, 1910-1932, ed. Andrzej Turowski, Kraków: Universitas, 1998. (Polish)
  • "International Constructivism in Germany and Austria" (ch. 7) & "International Constructivism in Central Europe" (ch. 8), in Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930, eds. Timothy O. Benson and Éva Forgács, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002, pp 385-486 & 487-603. Fourty-four & fifty-four texts from 1920-28 in 10 sections. (English)
  • "Kino-Pravda and Constructivism", ch. 3 in Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties, ed. & intro. Yuri Tsivian, trans. Julian Graffy, Gemona: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2004, pp 55-65. Six texts. [11] (English)
  • "Konstruktivizm", ch. in Tri veka russkoy metapoetiki: Legitimatsiya diskursa, 3 [Три века русской метапоэтики: Легитимация дискурса, 3], ed. K.E. Shtayn, Stavropol: Izdatelstvo Stavropolskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2006, pp 475-644. Forty-nine texts of literary constructivism. (Russian)
  • "Constructivismul", Manifestele avantgardei rusei, ed. Leo Butnaru, Bucharest: Biblioteca Bucureştilor, 2012, pp 186-195. Four texts by Soviet authors from 1922-28. (Romanian)
  • "Russian Suprematism and Constructivism", trans. John E. Bowlt, ch. 3 in The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader, eds. Dennis G. Ioffe and Frederick H. White, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012, pp 277-293. Three texts by Soviet authors from 1920-23. (English)

Anthologised texts

A collection of texts from selected English-language anthologies (ToC = Bann 1974, RAA = Bowlt 1976, AiT = Harrison & Wood 1992, BW = Benson & Forgács 2002, LoR = Tsivian 2004). Links in the fourth column lead to versions of the texts as they appear in the anthologies, together with editorial introductions. The last column represents themes. Most of the columns are sortable.

Author Yr Title Bk Th
KOMFUT 1919 Program Declaration RAA, AiT Ru
Tatlin 1919 The Initiative Individual in the Creativity of the Collective AiT Ru
Popova 1919 statement in the catalogue of the Tenth State Exhibition RAA, AiT Ru
Gabo; Pevsner 1920 The Realistic Manifesto ToC, RAA, AiT Ru
Tatlin; Shapiro; Meyerzon; Vinogradov 1920 The Work Ahead of Us ToC, RAA Ru
Punin 1920 The Monument to the Third International ToC, AiT Ru
1920 Program of the Productivist Group ToC Ru
Filippov 1921 Production Art ToC Ru
Toporkov 1921 Technological and Artistic Form ToC Ru
Rodchenko 1921 'Slogans' and 'Organizational Programme' of the Workshop for the Study of Painting in State Art Colleges AiT Ru
Gan 1922 from Constructivism ToC, RAA, AiT Ru
Pertsov 1922 At the Junction of Art and Production RAA Ru
Rodchenko; Stepanova 1922 Programme of the First Working Group of Constructivists AiT Ru
Arvatov 1922 The Proletariat and Leftist Art RAA Ru
Arvatov 1923 from Art and Class ToC Ru
Arvatov 1923 Materialized Utopia ToC Ru
Brik 1923 Into Production! ToC Ru
Brik 1923 The So-called 'Formal Method' AiT Ru
LEF 1923 Whom Is LEF Alerting? ToC, AiT Ru
Tatlin 1923 On Zangezi ToC Ru
Lissitzky; Ehrenburg 1922 The Blockade of Russia Is Coming to an End ToC Ru
Gan 1922 The Tenth Kino-Pravda LoR RuCi
Gan 1922 The Thirteenth Experiment LoR RuCi
LEF 1923 The Constructivists LoR RuCi
Kino 1923 Kino-Pravda LoR RuCi
Izvestiia 1924 Goskino and the Capturing of Daily Life LoR RuCi
Gan 1924 Recognition for the Kinocs LoR RuCi
1922 A Short Review of the Proceedings ToC, BW CIPA
Lissitzky; Ehrenberg 1922 Statement by the Editors of Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet ToC, AiT CIPA
van Doesburg 1922 Statement by the Stijl Group ToC CIPA
Richter 1922 Statement by the Constructivist Groups of Rumania, Switzerland, Scandinavia, and Germany ToC CIPA
van Doesburg; Lissitzky; Richter 1922 Statement by the International Faction of Constructivists ToC, BW CIPA
Kubicki, et al. 1922 Manifesto of the Commune BW CIPA
Kubicki, et al. 1922 Second Manifesto of the Commune BW CIPA
Berlewi 1922 The International Exhibition in Düsseldorf BW CIPA
Kassák, et al. 1922 The Stand Taken by the Vienna Ma Group Toward the First Düsseldorf Congress of Progressive Artists BW CIPA
Shterenberg 1922 Foreword in the Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Russian Art ToC RuExh
Holitscher 1922 Statement ToC RuExh
1922 from Introduction to Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Russian Art ToC RuExh
Westheim 1922 The Exhibition of Russian Artists BW RuExh
Behne 1922 On the Russian Exhibition BW RuExh
Kassák 1922 The Russian Exhibit in Berlin BW RuExh
Kallai 1923 The Russian Exhibition in Berlin BW RuExh
Kemeny 1923 Notes to the Russian Artists' Exhibition in Berlin BW RuExh
Poljanski 1923 Through the Russian Exhibition in Berlin BW RuExh
Kassák 1920 To the Artists of All Nations! BW ExVie
1920 The Provisional Int'l Moscow Bureau of Creative Artists, Questions to the Hungarian Activists, and their Reply BW ExVie
Kallai 1921 Moholy-Nagy BW ExVie
Kallai 1921 Lajos Kassák BW ExVie
Kassák 1922 Picture-Architecture BW ExVie
Uitz 1922 The Great Festival in Moscow BW ExVie
Kallai 1923 Constructivism BW ExVie
Kallai 1923 Correction (to the Attention of De Stijl) BW ExVie
Kallai, et al. 1923 Manifesto BW ExVie
Lissitzky 1924 The Electro-Mechanical Show BW ExVie
Walden 1924 Theater as an Artistic Phenomenon BW ExVie
Gaspar 1924 The Hungarian Activist Movement BW ExVie
Hausmann; Arp; Puni; Moholy-Nagy 1921 A Call for Elementarist Art ToC, BW Ber
Mattis-Teutsch 1921 statement from Der Sturm catalogue BW Ber
Moholy-Nagy; Kemeny 1922 Dynamic-Constructive System of Forces BW Ber
Hausmann; Peri 1922 Aims of the Pre??? Theater BW Ber
Berlewi 1922-23 The Arts Abroad BW Ber
Kemeny 1923 Constructivist Art and Peri's Spatial Constructions BW Ber
Eggeling; Hausmann 1923 Second Presentist Declaration - Addressed to the International Constructivists BW Ber
Kemeny 1923 The Dynamic Principle of Cosmic Construction, as Related to the Functional Significance of Constructive Design BW Ber
Kemeny 1924 Abstract Design from Suprematism to the Present BW Ber
Richter 1924 G ToC Ber
Hilberseimer 1924 Construction and Form ToC Ber
Richter 1924 Prague BW Ber
Richter 1924 Toward Constructivism BW Ber
Tzara 1924 Photography in Reverse BW Ber
Braun 1925 Concrete Light BW Ber
Moholy-Nagy 1922 Production-Reproduction BW Bau
Molnar 1922 KURI Manifesto BW Bau
Schlemmer 1923 Bauhaus Manifesto BW Bau
Moholy-Nagy 1924 Film Sketch: Dynamics of a Metropolis BW Bau
Molnar 1925 Life at the Bauhaus BW Bau
Moholy-Nagy 1926 Film at the Bauhaus: a Rejoinder BW Bau
Kallai 1928 Herwarth Walden BW Bau
Moholy-Nagy 1928 Letter of Resignation from the Bauhaus ToC Bau
Micić 1922 Shimmy at the Latin Quarter Graveyard BW Yu
Micić 1922 A Categorical Imperative of the Zenithist School of Poetry BW Yu
Micić 1924 Barbarogenius BW Yu
Micić 1924 The New Art BW Yu
Micić 1924 Zenithosophy: Or the Energetics of Creative Zenithism BW Yu
Ratkovic 1925 Barbarism as Culture BW Yu
Raith 1926 Toward the Documentation of the European Cultural Crisis: Five Years of Zenithism BW Yu
Poljanski 1926 Upside Down BW Yu
Micić 1926 Beyond-Sense Poetry BW Yu
Micić 1926 Zenithism through the Prism of Marxism BW Yu
Janco 1922 Notes on Painting BW Buc
Janco 1924 Art Notes BW Buc
Voronca 1924 Victor Brauner BW Buc
Voronca 1924 Aviograma BW Buc
Voronca 1924 untitled statement BW Buc
Brauner; Voronca 1924 Pictopoetry BW Buc
Voronca 1924 Assessments BW Buc
Callimachi 1924 The Contimporanul Exhibition (Notes) BW Buc
Vianu 1924 The First Contimporanul International Exhibition BW Buc
Voronca 1924 Marcel Janco BW Buc
Maxy 1924 Visual Chrono-metering BW Buc
Aderca 1925 Conversations with Lucian Blaga BW Buc
Voronca 1925 Grammar BW Buc
Voronca 1925 Voices BW Buc
Cisek 1925 The International Exhibition Organized by the Magazine Contimporanul BW Buc
Integral 1925 Man BW Buc
Voronca 1925 Surrealism and Integralism BW Buc
Cosma 1925 From Futurism to Integralism BW Buc
Michailescu 1925 Black Art BW Buc
Petrascu 1925 Note about Sculpture BW Buc
Jacques 1926 Initiation in the Mysteries of an Exhibition: The Sensational Pronouncements of Militsa Petrascu and Marcel Janco BW Buc
Janco 1926 Cubism BW Buc
Janco 1927 Coloring BW Buc
Bogza 1928 Urmuz BW Buc
Bonset 1923 Toward a Constructive Poetry ToC NL
van Doesburg 1923 Elemental Formation ToC NL
van Doesburg; van Eesteren 1923 Toward a Collective Construction ToC NL
1923 Picture ToC Prag
Teige 1924 Poetism BW Prag
Teige 1925 Constructivism and the Liquidation of Art BW Prag
Styrsky; Toyen 1927-28 Artificialism BW Prag
Styrsky; Toyen 1927-28 The Poet BW Prag
Teige 1928 Poetism Manifesto BW Prag
Teige 1928 Ultraviolet Paintings, or, Artificialism (Notes on the Paintings of Styrsky and Toyen) BW Prag
Berlewi 1924 Mechano-facture BW Pol
Blok 1924 Editorial Statement BW Pol
Stażewski 1924 untitled statements on Suprematism and painting BW Pol
Strzemiński 1924 Theses on New Art BW Pol
Szczuka 1924 An Attempt to Explain the Misunderstandings Related to the Public's Attitude to New Art BW Pol
Blok 1924 What Constructivism Is ToC, BW Pol
Strzemiński 1924 B=2 BW Pol
Szczuka 1924 Photomontage BW Pol
Stażewski 1924 On Abstract Art BW Pol
AARA 1924 Concretists RAA Ru
AARA 1924 The Projectionist Group RAA Ru
AARA 1924 The First Working Group of Constructivists RAA Ru
AARA 1924 The First Working Group of Artists RAA Ru
Brik 1924 From Pictures to Textile Prints RAA, AiT Ru
Literary Center of Constructivists 1924 The Basic Tenets of Constructivism ToC Ru
Tatlin 1924 Report of the Section for Material Culture's Research Work for 1924 AiT Ru
Gan 1928 Constructivism in the Cinema ToC Ru
Rodchenko 1928 Against the Synthetic Portrait, For the Snapshot RAA Ru
Lissitzky 1930 from Russia: The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union ToC Ru
Chernikov 1931 from The Construction of Architectural and Mechanical Forms ToC, RAA Ru
Gollerbakh 1931 Introduction to Chernikov's The Construction of Architectural and Mechanical Forms ToC Ru
Tatlin 1932 Art Out into Technology ToC Ru
Cernigoj 1927 Greetings! BW Lju
Polic 1927 Marij Kogoj's Black Masks BW Lju
Delak 1927 Theater Co-op BW Lju
Cernigoj 1927 Tank Manifesto BW Lju
Cernigoj 1927 The Constructivist Group in Trieste BW Lju
Seuphor 1930 In Defense of an Architecture ToC
Carlsund; van Doesburg; Hélion; Tutundjian; Wantz 1930 The Basis of Concrete Painting ToC
Torres-García 1933 The Constructive Art Group — Joint Collaborative Work ToC
Gorin 1936 The Aim of Constructive Plastic Art ToC
1937 Editorial in Circle — International Survey of Constructive Art ToC Circ
Gabo 1937 The Constructive Idea in Art ToC, AiT Circ
Gabo 1942 Letter to Herbert Read ToC Circ
Biederman 1948 from Art as the Evolution of Visual Knowledge ToC
Gabo 1948 On Constructive Realism ToC
Schöffer 1960 Spatiodynamism, Luminodynamism, and Chronodynamism ToC
Vasarely 1965 Planetary Folklore ToC
Hill 1959 On Constructions, Nature, and Structure ToC Str
Lohse 1961 A Step Farther — New Problems in Constructive Plastic Expression ToC Str
Baljeu 1964 The Constructive Approach Today ToC Str
Martin 1964 Construction from Within ToC Str

Abbreviations of themes

Bau = The Bauhaus; Ber = Berlin; Buc = Bucharest; CIPA = statements from and reaction to the Congress of International Progressive Artists, Düsseldorf; Circ = Circle; ExVie = Exile Vienna; Lju = Ljubljana; Pol = Poland; Prag = Prague; Ru = Russia; RuCi = Russian cinema; RuExh = First Russian Exhibition in Berlin; Str = Structure; Yu = Zagreb/Belgrade.

Historical studies and analyses

See also catalogues of retrospective exhibitions, introductions and commentaries to translations of primary books, introductions in anthologies and readers, and bibliographies on pages of respective artists, groups and theorists.

Russian

  • N.A. Nikonov (В.А. Никонов), Staty o konstruktivistakh [Статьи о конструктивистах], Ulyanovsk: Strezhen, 1928, 102 pp.
  • Tekhnicheskaia estetika (Trudy VNIITE) [Technical Aesthetics (Transactions of the VNIITE], Moscow: Dept of the History and Theory of Design/VNIITE, 1964-92. Journal. Selected numbers from 1986-92.
  • S.O. Khan-Magomedov (С.О. Хан-Магомедов), INKhUK i ranniy konstruktivizm [ИНХУК и ранний конструктивизм: научное издание], Moscow: Architectura, 1994, 248 pp.
  • E.V. Sidorina (Е.В. Сидорина), Russkiy konstruktivizm: idei, istoki, praktika [Русский конструктивизм: Идеи, истоки, практика], Moscow: n.p., 1995, 240 pp.
  • G.V. Titova (Г.В. Титова), Tvorcheskiy teatr i teatralnyy konstruktivizm [Творческий театр и театральный конструкти­визм], St Petersburg: St Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts, 1995, 255 pp.
  • Alexander Lavrentiev, Laboratoriia konstruktivizma, Moscow: Grant, 2000.
  • O.V. Akhmatova, Russkii konstruktivizm (opyt sotsial'no-filosofskogo analiza), Moscow: Sputnik, 2001.
  • Mariya Zalambani (Мария Заламбани), Iskusstvo v proizvodstve: avangard i revolyutsiya v Sovetskoy Rossii 20-kh godov [Искусство в производстве: Авангард и революция в Советской России 20-х годов] [1998], trans. N.B. Kardanov (Н.Б.Карданов), Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2003, 240 pp.
  • S.O. Khan-Magomedov (С.О. Хан-Магомедов), Konstruktivizm. Kontseptsiya formoobrazovaniya [Конструктивизм — концепция формообразования], Moscow: Stroyizdat [Стройиздат], 2003, 576 pp. TOC.
  • S.O. Khan-Magomedov (С.О. Хан-Магомедов), Aleksandr Vesnin i konstruktivizm. Zhivopis', teatr, arkhitektura, risunok, knizhnaia grafika, oformlenie prazdnikov [Александр Веснин и конструктивизм], Moscow: Architectura, 2007, 412 pp.
  • E.V. Barkhatova (Е.В. Бархатова), "Russkiy konstrukivizm 1920-kh - 1930-kh godov" [Русский конструктивизм 1920-х - 1930-х годов], nlr.ru (Russian National Library), 2010.
  • E.V. Sidorina (Е.В. Сидорина), Konstruktivizm bez beregov. Issledovaniya i etydy o russkom avangarde [Конструктивизм без берегов. Исследования и этюды о русском авангарде], Moscow: Progress-Traditsiya, 2012, 656 pp.

English

Dictionary entries on Constructivism

German

  • Willy Rotzler, Konstruktive Konzepte: eine Geschichte der konstruktiven Kunst vom Kubismus bis heute, Zurich: ABC, 1977, 299 pp; new ed., 1988, 332 pp; 3rd ed., 1995, 332 pp.
  • Rainer Georg Grübel, Russischer Konstruktivismus. Künstlerische Konzeptionen, literarische Theorie und kultureller Kontext, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1981, 263 pp. Excerpt, [17].
  • Lothar Lang, Konstruktivismus und Buchkunst, Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1990, 208 pp. TOC.
  • Kristina Passuth, Treffpunkte der Avantgarden: Ostmitteleuropa 1907–1930 [1988], trans. Aniko Harmath, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 2003, 337 pp. (German) Review: Dmitrieva-Einhorn (H-Soz-Kult 2006).

Polish

  • Andrzej Turowski, W kręgu konstruktiwizmu, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1979, 288 pp.
  • Andrzej Turowski, Konstruktywizm polski: próba rekonstrukcji nurtu, 1921-1934, Wroclaw: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1981, 360 pp. Review: Gryglewicz (FHA 1985).

Spanish

  • Christina Lodder, El constructivismo ruso [1983], trans. María Cóndor Orduña, Madrid: Alianza, 1988, viii+327 pp.
  • Claude Leclanche-Boulé, Tipografías y fotomontajes: constructivismo en la URSS [1984], trans. Rosa Vercher González, intro. Juan Manuel Bonet, Valencia: Campgràfic, 2003, 273 pp.

French

  • Claude Leclanche-Boulé, Typographies et photomontages constructivistes en URSS, Paris: Papyrus, 1984, 173 pp; new ed. as Le constructivisme russe: typographies & photomontages, Paris: Flammarion, 1991, 173 pp.
  • Kristina Passuth, Les avant-gardes de l'Europe Centrale, 1907-1927, Paris: Flammarion, 1988, 327 pp.
  • François Albéra, Eisenstein et le constructivisme russe, Lausanne: L'Âge d'homme, 1990. [18]
  • Valerie Camden, L'influence du proletkult sur la théorie et la pratique constructivistes, Quebec: Université Laval, 2010, 147 pp. Dissertation.
  • Gérard Conio, Dépassements constructivistes: Taraboukine, Axionov, Eisenstein, Lausanne: L'Âge d'homme, 2011, 396 pp. TOC.

Hungarian

  • Kristina Passuth, Avantgarde kapcsolatok Prágától Bukarestig 1907-1930 [1988], Budapest: Balassi, 1998, 381 pp.

Turkish

  • Victor Margolin, Ütopya mücadelesi: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946 [1998], trans. M. Emir Uslu, Istanbul: Espas Sanat Kuram Yayınları, 2012, 286 pp.

Italian

  • Maria Zalambani, L'arte nella produzione: avanguardia e rivoluzione nella Russia sovietica degli anni '20, Ravenna: Longo, 1998, 258 pp.

See also

Documentaries

  • Away From All Suns!, dir. Isa Willinger, 2013, 74 min. On constructivist architecture of the 1920s. [19] [20]

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