Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented

Hear how artists become agents of change in moments of political, social, and technological upheaval.
Floor 3
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Liubov Popova. Production Clothing for Actor No. 7 (Prozodezhda aktera No. 7). 1922, dated 1921
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Aleksandr Rodchenko, Reklam-Konstruktor (Advertising Constructor) Agency. Maquette for poster for Tea Directorate (Chaeupravlenie) cocoa. c. 1924
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John Heartfield (Helmut Herzfeld). The Hand Has Five Fingers (5 Finger hat die Hand). 1928
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Valentina Kulagina. Maquette for We Are Building (Stroim). 1929
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Nikolai Dolgorukov. Under the Banner of Lenin toward Building a Classless Society! (Pod znamenem Lenina k postroeniiu besklassovogo obshchestva!). 1932
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Gustav Klutsis. The Reality of Our Program Is Real People—That Is You and Me (Real’nost’ nashei programmy eto—zhivye liudi, eto my s vami). 1931
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Lajos Kassák. Ma: Aktivista-Folyóirat, Volume IX, no. 1. 1923
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Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. The Next Call, No.7. 1925
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Kurt Schwitters. Poster for Opel Day: Great car and flower parade (Opel-Tag: Grosser Auto Blumen Korso). 1927
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Kurt Schwitters. Poster for the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: The Functional Dwelling (Dammerstock-Siedlung: Die Gebrauchswohnung). 1929
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Natalia Pinus. We Will Build Daycares, Playgrounds, and Factory Kitchens. Enlist Working Women into the Ranks of Active Participants in the Industrial and Social Life of the Country! (Razvernem stroitel’stvo iaslei, detploshchadok, i fabrik-kukhon’, trudiashchiesia zhenshchiny—v riady aktivnykh uchastnits proizvodstvennoi i obshchestvennoi zhizni strany!). 1933
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Maria Bri-Bein. Woman Worker, Fight for a Clean Cafeteria, for Healthy Food (Rabotnitsa, boris’ za chistuiu stolovuiu, za zdorovuiu pishchu). 1931
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Piet Zwart. Poster for the rubber flooring manufacturer LAGA. 1922
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Piet Zwart. Advertisement for Vickers House, The Hague. 1923
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Fré Cohen. What is that? The Encyclopedia for Young People, vol. 13 (Wat is Dat? De Encyclopedie Voor Jongeren). 1935
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Fré Cohen. Goudvreugde's Awakening (Goudvreugde's Ontwaken) by Marie W. Vos. first published 1924 (this edition c.1930)
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Elena Semenova. Workers’ Club Lounge (Komnata otdykha v rabochem klube). 1926
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Max Bill. Poster for an exhibition on the Neubühl housing project (Wohnausstellung Neubühl), Zürich. 1931
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Erich Mrozek. Poster design for International Hygiene Exhibition (Internationale Hygiene Ausstellung), Dresden, May–October 1930. 1930
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Ella Bergmann-Michel. Wahlkampf (Letzte Wahl). 1932