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Tatlin, Vladimir: Monument to the Third International
Tatlin, Vladimir: Monument to the Third International The Monument to the Third International (also called “Tatlin's Tower”), original (now lost) designed by Vladimir Tatlin, 1920, reconstructed in wood and iron by carpenters Arne Holm and Eskil Nandorf and ironworker Henrik Östberg, 1968; in the Modern Museum, Stockholm.

Constructivism

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Also known as: Konstruktivizm
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Constructivism, Russian artistic and architectural movement that was first influenced by Cubism and Futurism and is generally considered to have been initiated in 1913 with the “painting reliefs”—abstract geometric constructions—of Vladimir Tatlin. The expatriate Russian sculptors Antoine Pevsner and Naum Gabo joined Tatlin and his followers in Moscow, and upon publication of their jointly written Realist Manifesto in 1920 they became the spokesmen of the movement. It is from the manifesto that the name Constructivism...

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