Revolutionary Design
- Revolution = New opportunity for art to progress
- Constructivists desire to make art useful
- Aim that art should help 'construct' new society
- Use of new techniques and abstract aesthetic
- By the end of 1920s artistic freedom
- 1934 Stalin decrees 'Socialist Realism' only
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Key points
- Russian Revolution led by lenin 1917
- 1971-1921 russian civil war
- 1917- mid 1920s intense artistic experimentation.
- The russian constructivists - leading avant - garde Artistic group
- 1921 Lenins new Economic Policy = Consumer goods needed Stepanvoa & Popova First state textile Factory, Moscow 1925 Paris Exposition Des arts decoratifs.
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