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Article: Russian revolution: Yve-Alain Bois on the politics of Constructivism.(BOOKS)(The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution)(Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism)(Book Review)
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- February 1, 2006
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THE ARTIST AS PRODUCER: RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM IN REVOLUTION, BY MARIA GOUGH. BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS. 2005. 280 PAGES. $50.
IMAGINE NO POSSESSIONS: THE SOCIALIST OBJECTS OF RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM, BY CHRISTINA KIAER. CAMBRIDGE, MA: MIT PRESS, 2005. 384 PAGES. $40.
OUR KNOWLEDGE OF Russian Constructivism has progressed in huge spurts separated by steady trickles of information. While the broad chronological scope of Camilla Gray's inaugural study of 1962, The Great Russian Experiment in Art: Russian Art, 1863-1922, meant that the author could only barely touch on Constructivism, the book sparked the interest of artists, scholars, and ...