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Liubov Popova, Constructivist Composition, 1921

Alexander Rodchenko, Dobrolet Advertisement, 1923

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The Constructivist and Dadaist congress in Weimar, 1922. Tristan Tzara with the monocle, Hans Richter laying on the ground, El Lissitzky with the pipe and Lucia and László Moholy-Nagy on right

Congress of the Constructivists and Dadaists, Weimar 1922 Upper row, left to right: Max und Lotte Burchartz, Peter Röhl, Vogel, Lucia und László Moholy-Nagy, Alfred Kemeny; middle row: Alexa Röhl, El Lissitzky, Nelly und Theo van Doesburg, Sturtzkopf Lower row: Werner Graeff, Nini Smit, Harry Scheibe, Cornelis van Eesteren, Hans Richter, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp.

Alexander Rodchenko, GUM Lightbulb Advertisement, 1923

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Osip Brik, Jan. 16, 1888 – 1945: Russian avant garde writer and literary critic - one of the most important members of the Russian formalist school, though he also identified himself as one of the Futurists…

Osip and his wife Lili (sister of Elsa Triolet, Louis Aragon’s wife…) enjoyed an open marriage, effectively living in a manage-a-trois w. poet hunk Mayakovsky…

Brik was co-founder with Mayakovsky of the most dynamic avant-garde journal of the early Soviet era, Left Front of Art, which was also an official publication for the group with the same name, and a platform for Russian Constructivist art…

Photo: Alexander Rodchenko: The Critic Osip Brik, 1924 - raw version before montage, which inserted the acronym LEF (in Cyrillic letters) in Osip’s ‘blind’ spectacle glass…

See the final montage version here…