CONSTRUCTING A REVOLUTION A BRIEF EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE AND THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION The Russian Avant Garde began in Russia in about 1915 It was the year that Malevich revealed his Suprematist compositions that reduced painting to total abstraction. and rid the pictures of any reference whatsoever to the visual world. He is credited with being the first artist to do this; that is, forsake the visual world for a world of …showed first 75 words of 1943 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1943 total…Avant Garde and the two revolutions in 1915. The big difference between them in 2001, is that the art survives and grows stronger; while the other is seen for what it is, a pathetic pseudo despotism run, for a lot of years by a sociopathic mortophile. BIBLIOGRAPHY Russian Constructivism. Christina Lodder.1983. Yale University Press. Art Spoke. Robert Atkins.1993. Abbeville Press. Art and Revolution. John Berger. 1969. Pantheon Books The Struggle for Utopia. Victor Margolin. 1997. University of Chicago Press.