constructivist
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Because he is best known for his work in metal, the reflex is to group him with David Smith, Richard Serra and other sculptors in the constructivist tradition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
It's a malleable category, so we're really just registering what some researchers would call a constructivist idea of "European": Who identified as European, and who was allowed to identify as European.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2023
He quoted Russian constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin’s support of “not the old, not the new, but the necessary.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
The groupings for the nine “goons” in the ballet’s central scene showed all their constructivist wit.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2016
Golinski is also wrong to suggest that it is only with the outbreak of the Science Wars that the constructivist enterprise lost its sense of direction.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Since James, most scholars have settled into two camps: perennialists, who argue that all mystical experiences are essentially the same, and constructivists, who counter that they are inextricable from one’s cultural context.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
Only a few mathematicians, known as constructivists, insist on being able to provide examples of quantities or objects asserted to exist, and they are considered a bit odd.
From Scientific American ● May 5, 2019
The constructivists, who shared the larger Soviet aim to collectivise life, wanted to discard ownership of bodies as they discarded ownership of homes.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2018
He knew anarchists, bolshevists, socialists, communists, fascists, pacifists, falangists and Stalinists, to say nothing of cubists, futurists, dadaists, surrealists, suprematists, constructivists, destructivists and stridentists.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2010
It pervaded the revolutionary idealism of the Russian constructivists, the Bauhaus designers, the Dadaists and Surrealists, even the Abstract Expressionists.
From Time Magazine Archive
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