Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented: 1918-1938
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By Jenny Anger (Text by), Barry Bergdoll (Text by), Jean-Louis Cohen (Text by), Adrian Sudhalter (Editor), Masha Chlenova (Text by), Lee Daffner (Text by), Jodi Hauptman (Editor), Barbora Bartunkova (Text by), Benjamin Buchloh (Text by), Jane Cavalier (Text by), Olivia Crough (Text by)
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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 that we were building things … we put our works together like fitters.” So declared the artist Hannah Höch, describing a radically new approach to artmaking in the 1920s and ’30s. Such wholesale reinvention of t...
































