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 ...

Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne is tracing this in their new exhibition Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art. Sarah speaks to one of the curators, Sue Cramer.