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Article: A visual vocabulary to take the place of language.
- Article from:
- Creative Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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No movement in art has found more favour with designers than the short- lived creative revolution that became known as Constructivism. Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was its greatest icon in three dimensions, no less a one for never being built. Still more influential has been its graphic output - the paintings of Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky, and the designs and photomontages of Alexander Rodchenko, Alexei Gan and Gustav Klucis. In London, a model of Tatlin's corkscrew steel tower was recently seen at the Royal Academy's From Russia exhibition, while Rodchenko's photography was the subject of a major show at the Hayward Gallery - both ...