Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented | MoMA

Hear how artists become agents of change in moments of political, social, and technological upheaval.

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Introduction

Liubov Popova. Production Clothing for Actor No. 7 (Prozodezhda aktera No. 7). 1922, dated 1921
Aleksandr Rodchenko, Reklam-Konstruktor (Advertising Constructor) Agency. Maquette for poster for Tea Directorate (Chaeupravlenie) cocoa. c. 1924
John Heartfield (Helmut Herzfeld). The Hand Has Five Fingers (5 Finger hat die Hand). 1928
Valentina Kulagina. Maquette for We Are Building (Stroim). 1929
Nikolai Dolgorukov. Under the Banner of Lenin toward Building a Classless Society! (Pod znamenem Lenina k postroeniiu besklassovogo obshchestva!). 1932
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
Lajos Kassák. Ma: Aktivista-Folyóirat, Volume IX, no. 1. 1923
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. The Next Call, No.7. 1925
Kurt Schwitters. Poster for Opel Day: Great car and flower parade (Opel-Tag: Grosser Auto Blumen Korso). 1927
Kurt Schwitters. Poster for the exhibition Dammerstock Housing Estate: The Functional Dwelling (Dammerstock-Siedlung: Die Gebrauchswohnung). 1929
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
Maria Bri-Bein. Woman Worker, Fight for a Clean Cafeteria, for Healthy Food (Rabotnitsa, boris’ za chistuiu stolovuiu, za zdorovuiu pishchu). 1931
Piet Zwart. Poster for the rubber flooring manufacturer LAGA. 1922
Piet Zwart. Advertisement for Vickers House, The Hague. 1923
Fré Cohen. What is that? The Encyclopedia for Young People, vol. 13 (Wat is Dat? De Encyclopedie Voor Jongeren). 1935
Fré Cohen. Goudvreugde's Awakening (Goudvreugde's Ontwaken) by Marie W. Vos. first published 1924 (this edition c.1930)
Elena Semenova. Workers’ Club Lounge (Komnata otdykha v rabochem klube). 1926
Max Bill. Poster for an exhibition on the Neubühl housing project (Wohnausstellung Neubühl), Zürich. 1931
Erich Mrozek. Poster design for International Hygiene Exhibition (Internationale Hygiene Ausstellung), Dresden, May–October 1930. 1930
Ella Bergmann-Michel. Wahlkampf (Letzte Wahl). 1932