In 1922 the Russian art theorist Alexei Gan published a manifesto for an unprecedented, utopian form of creativity ... of Gan’s extraordinary book, Constructivism, told RBTH: “Constructivism ...

Of course, these brief years were a great moment, a dawn, in which many ideas of modern art were born. But did they actually need the October Revolution? Constructivist designs certainly used a ...

and Alexander Vesnin – embarked on a search for new forms of art that would be "useful" to everyday life such as graphic design, advertising and photography. The renunciation of "high" art of ...