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constructivist

American  
[kuhn-struhk-tuhv-ist] / kənˈstrʌk təvˌɪst /

noun

  • constructivists
    plural
  1. a person who believes in or promotes constructivism.


adjective

  1. relating to or characteristic of constructivism.

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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

“I noted the sleek architectural innovations and the vibrant, high-tech, constructivist color scheme,” she said of her painting process.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2022

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

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

The Paris of Kertesz's early career was the cockpit of modernism, where surrealists, Dadaists and constructivists fanned the air with their manifestos.

From Time Magazine Archive

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