Industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects

• An abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I

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In the philosophy of mathematics , constructivism asserts that it is necessary to find (or "construct") a mathematical object to prove that it exists. When one assumes that an object does not exist and derives a contradiction from that assumption , one ...

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n. 1 (context arts English) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials. 2 (context mathematics English) A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical ...

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n. an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects

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1924, in reference to an abstract artistic movement begun in Russia c.1920, from Russian konstruktivizm . Related: Constructivist (1928).