Engineer, agitator, constructor : The artist reinvented, 1918-1939 : The Merrill C. Berman Collection /

"How the modernist avant-gardes from Dada to constructivism reconceived their roles, working as propagandists, advertisers, publishers, graphic designers, curators and more, to create new visual languages for a radically changed world. "We regarded ourselves as engineers, we maintained tha...

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Other Authors: Hauptman, Jodi (Editor, Curator), Sudhalter, Adrian (Editor, Curator), Anger, Jenny, 1965- (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, New York, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface. The Merrill C. Berman Collection : A shadow museum brought to light / Christophe Cherix
  • Introduction. Engineer, Agitator, Constructor : The Artist Reinvented / Jodi Hauptman
  • Representing the Constructor / Adrian Sudhalter
  • Plates. Attributed to Wladyslaw Strzemiński : Unovis posters, 1920-21 / Masha Chlenova
  • Gustav Klutsis : "Electrification of the Entire Country", c. 1920 / Maria Gough
  • Liubov Popova : "Production Clothing for Actor No. 7", 1922 / Juliet Koss
  • Alexandra Exter : Designs for a mural in the Mechanical Engineering Pavilion at the All-Russian Exhibition of Agriculture and Home Industries, 1923 / Martino Stierli
  • Aleksandr Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky : Maquette for poster, Chaeupravlenie Cocoa, c. 1924 / Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky
  • Elena Semenova : Three Workers' Club drawings, 1926 and 1930 / Maria Gough
  • Aleksei Gan : Poster for "First Exhibition of Contemporary Architecture", 1927 / Kristin Romberg
  • Lydia Naumova : History of the International Trade Union Movement poster series, c. 1928 / Devin Fore
  • Valentina Kulagina : Maquette for "We Are Building", 1929 / Laura Neufeld
  • Varvara Stepanova : "Bolster Our Defense With Whatever You Can!", c. 1930 / Olivia Crough
  • Gustav Klutsis : "The Reality of Our Program Is Real People - That Is You And Me", c. 1931 / Lee Ann Daffner
  • Maria Bri-Bein : "Woman Worker, Fight For a Clean Canteen, For Healthy Food", 1931 / Christina Kiaer
  • Aleksandr Deineka : "We Will Turn Moscow Into a Model Socialist City of the Proletarian State", 1931 / Jean-Louis Cohen
  • Solomon Telingater : Promotional design for Red Army Theater, c. 1934 / William Kentridge
  • Henryk Berlewi : "Mechano-Facture", 1924 / Jenny Anger
  • Teresa Żarnower and Mieczysław Szczuka - "Blok", no. 6-7, 1924 / Jennifer Tobias
  • Farkas Molnár : Cover design for Ma Magazine, 1924 / Juliet Kinchin
  • Jindřich Štyrský - "White Star Line", 1923 / Barbora Bartunkova
  • Ladislav Sutnar : Albums of graphic design, c. 1925-39 / Iva Knobloch
  • Johannes Baader : Untitled ("Advertisement for Myself"), 1920 / Adrian Sudhalter
  • Raoul Hausmann : "Synthetic Cinema of Painting", c. 1918-19 / Jodi Hauptman
  • Hannah Höch : Untitled (Dada), c. 1922 / Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
  • Herbert Bayer : Exhibition stand for electrical company, 1924 / Noam M. Elcott
  • Marianne Brandt : "Sports - Sport", c. 1927 / Elizabeth Otto
  • Heinz Loew : "Exhibition Stand With Mandatory Viewing Route", 1929 / Barry Bergdoll
  • Kurt Schwitters : Poster for "Opel Day : Great Car and Flower Parade", 1927 / Megan R. Luke
  • Max Burchartz : Untitled (Red Square), c. 1928 / Robert Wiesenberger
  • John Heartfield : "The Hand Has Five Fingers", 1928 / Andrés Mario Zervigón
  • Bart Van Der Leck : Delft Salad Oil poster commission, 1919 / Erika Mosier
  • Piet Zwart : Three advertisements, 1922 and 1923 / Ellen Lupton
  • Fré Cohen : Book covers and printed ephemera, 1920s - 1930s / Juliet Kinchin
  • Bruno Munari : Maquette for advertisement "Forces of the Empire", 1937 / Jeffrey Schnapp
  • Infiltrating the Art Museum : MOMA and modern graphic design / Juliet Kinchin
  • Catalogue - The Merrill C. Berman Collection at MOMA / compiled by Jane Cavalier and Sewon Kang
  • Index
  • Contributors
  • Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art.