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Constructivism
Constructivism is a browsable saved.works movement page spanning 72 works by 2 artists across 1 institution. Leading artists include Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lissitzky. Works are grouped from artist fallbacks plus medium, title, tag, and vision cues when those signals line up with the movement.
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"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 8 Genius Siska by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 9 Yankee Go Home by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

Ispaniia. Okean. Gavana. Meksika. Amerika (Spain, the Ocean, Havana, Mexico, America)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover

Untitled (Varvara Stepanova and Lyubov Popova)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Katalog posmertnoi vystavki khudozhnika konstruktora L.S. Popovoi (Catalogue of the Posthumous Exhibition of the Artist-Constructor L.S. Popova)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover
![Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den Vereinigten Staaten (Neues Bauen in der Welt) (America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States [New Ways of Building in the World]), vol. 2 by El Lissitzky](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxMTE3NSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=be8725df3f6b9f71)
Amerika. Die Stilbildung des neuen Bauens in den Vereinigten Staaten (Neues Bauen in der Welt) (America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States [New Ways of Building in the World]), vol. 2
El Lissitzky · 1930
Museum of Modern Art · Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed

Cover study for America: The Development of Style in New Buildings in the United States (New Ways of Building in the World)
El Lissitzky · 1929-30
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Cover study for Russia: Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union (New Ways of Building in the World)
El Lissitzky · 1929-30
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

"Khorosho! Oktyabrskaya poema" by Vladimir Mayakovsky
El Lissitzky · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Arkhitektura VKhUTEMAS. Raboty arkhitekturnogo fakul'teta VKhUTEMASa, 1920-1927 (Architecture of VKhUTEMAS: The Works of the Department of Architecture, 1920-1927)
El Lissitzky · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress illustration (cover)

Das Entfesselte Theater (The Theater Unbound)
El Lissitzky · 1923
Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Dlia golosa (For the Voice)
El Lissitzky · 1923
Museum of Modern Art · Book with twenty-five letterpress illustrations (including cover)

Composition
El Lissitzky · 1922
Museum of Modern Art · Oil and tempera on wood

Elfandel (The Elephant's Child)
El Lissitzky · 1922
Museum of Modern Art · Book with 14 letterpress illustrations

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 1
El Lissitzky · 1922-1923
Museum of Modern Art · Covers with letterpress lettering on front

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 2
El Lissitzky · 1922-1923
Museum of Modern Art · Covers with letterpress lettering on front

Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 4
El Lissitzky · 1922-1923
Museum of Modern Art · Covers with letterpress lettering on front

"Pro dva kvadrata" by El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky · 1920
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

An Old Man, His Head Two Paces Behind (Alter) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne)
El Lissitzky · 1920–21, published 1923
Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

Announcer (Ansager) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne)
El Lissitzky · 1920–21, published 1923
Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

Anxious Ones (Ängstliche) from Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show Victory over the Sun (Figurinen, die plastische Gestaltung der elektro-mechanischen Schau Sieg über die Sonne)
El Lissitzky · 1920–21, published 1923
Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

Back cover from Proun
El Lissitzky · 1920
Museum of Modern Art · Gouache and pencil on prepared board from…

Air de dance pour piano / pesnia pliaska palestinskikh evreev / shira chadashah (Dance Music)
El Lissitzky · 1919
Museum of Modern Art · Cover with letterpress illustration on front

Cover from Komitet po bor'be s bezrabotitsei (Committee to Combat Unemployment)
El Lissitzky · 1919
Museum of Modern Art · Folded sheet with two lithographed illustrations and…

Der milner, di milnerin, un di milshtayner (The Miller, His Wife, and Their Millstones)
El Lissitzky · 1919
Museum of Modern Art · Book with 11 letterpress illustrations

Di hun vos hot gevolt hoben a kam (The Hen that Wanted a Comb)
El Lissitzky · 1919
Museum of Modern Art · Book with ten lithographed illustrations

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 2 Secret Sign by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 3 Invitation Given by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 4 Corpse in Three Part Mirror by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 5 Radio Town by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 6 Pro and Con by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 7 Black Hand by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

An Oath
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1935
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Bedbug
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Biznes. Sbornik literaturnogo tsentra konstruktivistov (Business: Collection of the Literary Center of Constructivists)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover

Assembling for a Demonstration
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1928-30
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

At the Telephone
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1928
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

"Materializatsia fantastiki" by Ilya Erenberg
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress
![1905—October: Soviets of the Workers’ Deputies (1905—Oktiabr’: sovety rabochikh deputatov) (Poster no. 9 of 25 from The History of the All-Union Communist Party [of Bolsheviks] in Posters [lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh]) by Aleksandr Rodchenko](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjQ2NzMzOCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=3ce95480741fb165)
1905—October: Soviets of the Workers’ Deputies (1905—Oktiabr’: sovety rabochikh deputatov) (Poster no. 9 of 25 from The History of the All-Union Communist Party [of Bolsheviks] in Posters [lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh])
Aleksandr Rodchenko · c.1926
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress
![1919 in Soviet Russia (1919 v sovetskoi Rossii). Poster no. 20 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh) by Aleksandr Rodchenko](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjQ4MjExNSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=e8e17d0f7372a362)
1919 in Soviet Russia (1919 v sovetskoi Rossii). Poster no. 20 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · c. 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph
![Armed Rebellion, November–December 1905 (1905 Vooruzhennoe vosstanie noiabr’–dekabr’). Poster no. 10 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh) by Aleksandr Rodchenko](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjQ4MjEwNiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=95425e7bf0128e8a)
Armed Rebellion, November–December 1905 (1905 Vooruzhennoe vosstanie noiabr’–dekabr’). Poster no. 10 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · c. 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Boats
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Balconies
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1925
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 1 Revenge's Mask by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 10 Soviet Explosion by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

"Itogo" by S. Tretyakov
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Cover: offset lithograph; interior: letterpress

"Pro eto" by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1923
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Abstract Drawing
Aleksandr Rodchenko · (1941)
Museum of Modern Art · Ink on paper
![From the “Liberation of Labor” Group to the “Unions of Struggle,” 1883–1894 (Ot gruppy “Osvobozhdenie truda” do “Soiuzov bor’by,” 1883–1894). Poster no. 2 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh) by Aleksandr Rodchenko](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjQ4MjEwMCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=ac36d5399661b710)
From the “Liberation of Labor” Group to the “Unions of Struggle,” 1883–1894 (Ot gruppy “Osvobozhdenie truda” do “Soiuzov bor’by,” 1883–1894). Poster no. 2 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · c. 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph
![Unions of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class. The First Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. 1894–98 (Soiuzy bor’by za osvobozhdenie rabochego klassa. 1yi s”ezd Ross. Sots.-Dem. Rab. Partii. 1894–98). Poster no. 3 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh) by Aleksandr Rodchenko](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjQ4MjEwMSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=43fed3394a0bfc6d)
Unions of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class. The First Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. 1894–98 (Soiuzy bor’by za osvobozhdenie rabochego klassa. 1yi s”ezd Ross. Sots.-Dem. Rab. Partii. 1894–98). Poster no. 3 of 25 from the series The History of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in Posters (lstoria VKP[b] v plakatakh)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · c. 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Raboche-Krest'ianskaia Krasnaia Armiia (Worker-Peasant Red Army)
El Lissitzky · 1934
Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress text and letterpress and…

SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen 15 letiiu krasnoi armii (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: Fifteen Years of the Red Army), no. 2
El Lissitzky · 1933
Museum of Modern Art · Journal, photogravure printed

Tekhnicheskaia propaganda
El Lissitzky · 1933
Museum of Modern Art · Book

SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Posviashchen Dnepostroi (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: On Dnepostroi), no. 10
El Lissitzky · 1932
Museum of Modern Art · Journal
![Frankreich. Die Entwicklung der neuen Ideen nach Konstruktion und Form (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 3.) (France. The Development of New Ideas of Construction and Form [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 3) by El Lissitzky](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxMTE3OCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=f8262f6d3b39a5cf)
Frankreich. Die Entwicklung der neuen Ideen nach Konstruktion und Form (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 3.) (France. The Development of New Ideas of Construction and Form [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 3)
El Lissitzky · 1930
Museum of Modern Art · Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed
![Russland. Die Rekonstruktion der Architektur in der Sowjetunion (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 1) (Russia. The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 1) by El Lissitzky](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxMTE4MiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=cd26613b791ece74)
Russland. Die Rekonstruktion der Architektur in der Sowjetunion (Neues Bauen in der Welt. Band 1) (Russia. The Reconstruction of Architecture in the Soviet Union [New Ways of Building in the World], vol. 1)
El Lissitzky · 1930
Museum of Modern Art · Journal, lithograph and letterpress printed

USSR, auf der internationalen Pelzfach Ausstellung, Staatenhalle Leipzig
El Lissitzky · 1930
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Stroitel'stvo Moskvy. Ezhemesiachnyi zhurnal Moskovskogo oblastnogo ispolnitel'nogo komiteta Soveta R., K. i K. deputatov, no. 5 (Building Moscow: Monthly Journal of The Moscow Soviet of Workers, Peasants, and Red Army Deputies, no. 5)
El Lissitzky · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Book with photomontage reproductions

USSR Russische Ausstellung
El Lissitzky · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

USSR Russische Ausstellung
El Lissitzky · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure

Zhurnalist, no. 1
El Lissitzky · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Wraparound cover with letterpress lettering and typographic…

Katalog des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Austellung, Köln 1928 (Catalogue of the Soviet Pavilion at the International Pressa Exhibition, Cologne 1928)
El Lissitzky · 1928
Museum of Modern Art · Illustrated book with photogravure illustrations

Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken: Pressa Köln (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics)
El Lissitzky · 1928
Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Zapiski poeta. Povest' (Notes of a Poet: A Tale)
El Lissitzky · 1928
Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover

Invitation to the All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition
El Lissitzky · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem)
El Lissitzky · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem)
El Lissitzky · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Izvestiia ASNOVA
El Lissitzky · 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress

Record
El Lissitzky · 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Kunstismus, 1914–1924 (The Isms of Art 1914–1924)
El Lissitzky · 1925
Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed

Kurt Schwitters
El Lissitzky · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

N²ATUR + T²ECHNIK + K²UNST = √-1 = i
El Lissitzky · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print with black ink