Constructivism: web "reserve" readings [click here to access Bauhaus readings]
September 1-3:
F.T. MARINETTI “Founding and Manifesto of Futurism”
“A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”
NATALIA GONCHAROVA AND MIKHAIL LARIONOV “Rayonists and Futurists”
September 8-10:
WASSILY KANDINSKY Excerpts from Concerning the Spiritual in Art
KAZIMIR MALEVICH From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting
September 15-17:
KOMFUT "Program Declaration"
VLADIMIR TATLIN "The Initiative Individual in the Creativity of the Collective"
MALEVICH "The Question of Imitative Art"
September 22-24:
UNOVIS "Program "
KANDINSKY "Inkhuk Program"
LYUBOV POPOVA "Statement"
NIKOLAI PUNIN "The Monument to the Third International"
September 29
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO "Slogans and Curriculum from Vkhutemas"
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO AND VARVARA STEPANOVA "Program of the First Working Group of Constructivists"
October 1-6:
ALEXEI GAN From Constructivism
OSIP BRIK "From Pictures to Calico-Print"
LEF COLLECTIVE "Whom is LEF alerting?"
October 8:
LEON TROTSKY From Literature and Revolution
October 13-15:
WALTER BENJAMIN "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
GUSTAV KLUCIS "Photomontage as a New Problem in Agit-Art"
OCTOBER "Declaration"
October 20-22:
AKhRR, "Declaration"
PAUL WOOD "Realisms and Realities: Soviet Union"
RETURN TO CONSTRUCTIVISM AND THE BAUHAUS MAINPAGE
NOTE: If you don't already have it, click the Adobe icon to download (FREE!) Acrobat Reader for reading and printing out the required readings