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Constructivism
Constructivism is a browsable saved.works movement page spanning 72 works by 2 artists across 3 institutions. Leading artists include El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko. 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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Cover from Pro dva kvadrata. Suprematicheskii skaz v 6-ti postroikakh (About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions)
El Lissitzky · 1922
Museum of Modern Art · One from an illustrated book with seven…
Plate from Pro dva kvadrata. Suprematicheskii skaz v 6-ti postroikakh (About Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale of Two Squares in Six Constructions)
El Lissitzky · 1922
Museum of Modern Art · One from an illustrated book with seven…
"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
Cover
El Lissitzky · 1923
Dallas Museum of Art · Lithograph
Dlia golosa (For the Voice)
El Lissitzky · 1923
RISD Museum · Softcover book with 24 letterpress-printed illustrations and typographic designs…
Proun
El Lissitzky · 1923
RISD Museum · collage
Title page
El Lissitzky · 1923
Dallas Museum of Art · Lithograph
Untitled (Proun Room)
El Lissitzky · 1923
Dallas Museum of Art · Lithograph
Untitled (Proun)
El Lissitzky · 1923
Dallas Museum of Art · Lithograph
Untitled by El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky · 1923
Dallas Museum of Art · Lithograph
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
N²ATUR + T²ECHNIK + K²UNST = √-1 = i
El Lissitzky · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print with black ink
![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](/api/artwork-image/moma-405570/aleksandr-rodchenko-armed-rebellion-november-december-1905-1905-vooruzhennoe-vosstanie-noiabr-dekabr-poster-no-10-of-25-.webp?q=72&w=2048)
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
![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](/api/artwork-image/moma-220985/aleksandr-rodchenko-1905-october-soviets-of-the-workers-deputies-1905-oktiabr-sovety-rabochikh-deputatov-poster-no-9-of-.webp?q=72&w=2048)
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
"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 4 Corpse in Three Part Mirror by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure
Record
El Lissitzky · 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print
![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](/api/artwork-image/moma-16286/el-lissitzky-russland-die-rekonstruktion-der-architektur-in-der-sowjetunion-neues-bauen-in-der-welt-band-1-russia-the-re.webp?q=72&w=2048)
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
An Oath
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1935
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print
![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](/api/artwork-image/moma-16280/el-lissitzky-amerika-die-stilbildung-des-neuen-bauens-in-den-vereinigten-staaten-neues-bauen-in-der-welt-america-the-dev.webp?q=72&w=2048)
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
Boats
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print
![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](/api/artwork-image/moma-16283/el-lissitzky-frankreich-die-entwicklung-der-neuen-ideen-nach-konstruktion-und-form-neues-bauen-in-der-welt-band-3-france.webp?q=72&w=2048)
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
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
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
"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 1 Revenge's Mask by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure
"Khorosho! Oktyabrskaya poema" by Vladimir Mayakovsky
El Lissitzky · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress
"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 10 Soviet Explosion by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure
Das Entfesselte Theater (The Theater Unbound)
El Lissitzky · 1923
Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed
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
Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem)
El Lissitzky · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed
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
Kurt Schwitters
El Lissitzky · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print
SSSR na stroike. Ezhemesiachnyi illiustrirovannyi zhurnal. Belomorsko-Baltiiskii Kanal (USSR in Construction, Monthly Illustrated Journal: The Baltic-White Sea Canal), no. 12
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1933
Museum of Modern Art · Journal, photogravure printed with photogravure and lithograph…
Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 2
El Lissitzky · 1922-1923
Museum of Modern Art · Covers with letterpress lettering on front
USSR Russische Ausstellung
El Lissitzky · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure
Balconies
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1925
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print
Abstract Drawing
Aleksandr Rodchenko · (1941)
Museum of Modern Art · Ink on paper
Dlia golosa (For the Voice)
El Lissitzky · 1923
Museum of Modern Art · Book with twenty-five letterpress illustrations (including cover)
"Pro dva kvadrata" by El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky · 1920
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress
![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](/api/artwork-image/moma-405565/aleksandr-rodchenko-unions-of-struggle-for-the-liberation-of-the-working-class-the-first-congress-of-the-russian-social-.webp?q=72&w=2048)
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
Assembling for a Demonstration
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1928-30
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print
Zapiski poeta. Povest' (Notes of a Poet: A Tale)
El Lissitzky · 1928
Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover
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
Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 4
El Lissitzky · 1922-1923
Museum of Modern Art · Covers with letterpress lettering on front
Back cover from Proun
El Lissitzky · 1920
Museum of Modern Art · Gouache and pencil on prepared board from…
Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem)
El Lissitzky · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Book, 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
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)
USSR Russische Ausstellung
El Lissitzky · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure
Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken: Pressa Köln (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics)
El Lissitzky · 1928
Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed
![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](/api/artwork-image/moma-405564/aleksandr-rodchenko-from-the-liberation-of-labor-group-to-the-unions-of-struggle-1883-1894-ot-gruppy-osvobozhdenie-truda.webp?q=72&w=2048)
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
Elfandel (The Elephant's Child)
El Lissitzky · 1922
Museum of Modern Art · Book with 14 letterpress illustrations
Kunstismus, 1914–1924 (The Isms of Art 1914–1924)
El Lissitzky · 1925
Museum of Modern Art · Book, letterpress printed
Epopeia. Literaturnyi sbornik, no. 1
El Lissitzky · 1922-1923
Museum of Modern Art · Covers with letterpress lettering on front
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. 3 Invitation Given by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure
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
"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 2 Secret Sign by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure
Composition
El Lissitzky · 1922
Museum of Modern Art · Oil and tempera on wood
Izvestiia ASNOVA
El Lissitzky · 1926
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress
"Pro eto" by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1923
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress
Untitled (Varvara Stepanova and Lyubov Popova)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print
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
"Itogo" by S. Tretyakov
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Cover: offset lithograph; interior: letterpress
Raboche-Krest'ianskaia Krasnaia Armiia (Worker-Peasant Red Army)
El Lissitzky · 1934
Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress text and letterpress and…
"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 5 Radio Town by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure
Tekhnicheskaia propaganda
El Lissitzky · 1933
Museum of Modern Art · Book
Biznes. Sbornik literaturnogo tsentra konstruktivistov (Business: Collection of the Literary Center of Constructivists)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Book with letterpress cover
"Materializatsia fantastiki" by Ilya Erenberg
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Letterpress
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…
Zhurnalist, no. 1
El Lissitzky · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Wraparound cover with letterpress lettering and typographic…
"A Yankee in Petrograd" Vol. 6 Pro and Con by Jim Dollar (Marietta Saginyan)
Aleksandr Rodchenko · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Gravure