Tradition of Constructivism

Today is the deed.We will account for it tomorrow.The past we are leaving behind as carrion.The future we leave to the fortune-tellers.We take the present day.

About the author

Stephen Bann is a British art historian and scholar, and the author of Experimental Painting

Summary

With these words the sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner pronounced the official birth of constructivist art, the most revolutionary, challenging, and enigmatic of twentieth-century artistic movements. Since the time of their "Realistic Manifesto," constructivism has spread throughout the world, opposing personal, expressionistic art with abstraction and formal construction. In this book, Stephen Bann has collected the most important constructivist documents, including the writings of EI Lissitzky, Theo Van Doesburg, Hans Richter, Victor Vasarely, and Charles Biederman—many of which have never before been available in English—and supplemented them with a critical introduction, a chronology of constructivism, and an invaluable bibliography of close to four hundred items. This volume is illustrated with thirty-eight constructivist prints, paintings, drawings, and sculptures, some of them are rare and previously unpublished.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Bann, Bann Stephen
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1990
• EAN: 9780306803963
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80396-3
• No. of pages: 382
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Art & Politics, ART / Russian & Former Soviet Union, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), ART / History / 20th & 21st Century, ART / Movements / Modernism