Industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects

• An abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I

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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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Constructivism may refer to: Constructivism (art) , an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes Constructivism (international relations) , a theory that stresses the socially constructed character of international ...

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

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