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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction
1 The Economic Shaping of Constructivism
2 A Blank Slate: The First Years of Soviet Propaganda Porcelain
3 Nadezhda Lamanova: On the Elegant Fringes of Constructivist Dress
4 Esfir Shub: “Magician of the Editing Table”
5 The Five-Year Plan Prompts a Fire Sale
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“Perhaps the most salient feature of Russian Constructivism is that its universal reputation rests not upon what it produced, but rather upon its unfulfilled intentions, dreams, blueprints, and prototypes. Drawing on rare bibliographical and archival sources and moving across film, photography, fashion, and other media, Catherine Walworth describes the ‘sweet nothings’ of the Constructivists by emphasizing their reliance on the ‘salvage’ of throwaway objects, built-in obsolescence, chance, and art trouvé. In this way she brings to bear an alternative and refreshing light upon the later phase of the Russian avant-garde, offering us a truly synthetic and interdisciplinary assessment.”
—John E. Bowlt, author of Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902–1934
