In Imagine No Possessions, Christina Kiaer investigates the Russian Constructivist conception of objects as being more than commodities. “Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades,” wrote Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1925. Kiaer analyzes this Constructivist counterproposal to capitalism’s commodity fetish by examining objects produced by Constructivist artists between 1923 and 1925: Vladimir Tatlin’s prototype designs for pots and pans and other everyday objects, Liubov’ Popova’s and Varvara Stepanova’s fashion designs and textiles, Rodchenko’s packaging and advertisements for state-owned businesses (made in collaboration with revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky), and Rodchenko’s famous design for the interior of a workers’ club.
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Imagine No Possessions
These artists, heeding the call of Constructivist manifestos to abandon the nonobjective painting and sculpture of the early Russian avant-garde and enter into Soviet industrial production, aimed to work as “artist-engineers” to produce useful objects for everyday life in the new socialist collective.
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