Constructivist Manifesto

[Honggweilo]

In a few weeks i need to do a application asignment for undergrad study for illustration design that i am going to attend next year.

The asignment is that i choose any art disipline and work out the following requirement in my work

1. my favorite location
2. my favorite item
3. my favorite artwork
4. my favorite text

I decided to use the Tatlin Tower (Monumet to the 3rd international) as the artwork and use the Communist Manifesto+What to do?+The constructivist manifesto as the texts.

The problem is that i can seem to find a copy of the constructivist manifesto on the net, while i know there is one since i came acros it a while ago.

If anyone knows where i can get a digital copy of it, or when out of options a book i can order, please tell me

[Honggweilo]

Anyone?

[SPK]

The very first constructivist manifesto, I think, appeared in the USSR in 1921: The Program of the First Working Group of Constructivists. Its authors should appear as Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, two of the group's key artists. I've found it as a book (probably used or rare), but not online, at least in English translation.

There may be other writings that you've found online from a few years later. Constructivism spread out from the USSR and had an influence in Germany and Hungary in the mid-twenties, at least, but it doesn't sound like you're interested in that (Tatlin's Monument is from 1920).

[tambourine_man]

i think the main manifesto of the constructivist movement is called the "realistic manifesto" signed by naum gabo in 1920 or maybe 1921. i'm not sure if this is what you're referring to though, but here is a website that has loads of info on avant garde art/anti-art of the 20th, 21st centuries :

www.ubu.com

here is the "realistic manifesto" read aloud by naum gabo, i think, or maybe somebody else:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/gabo.html

i dont know if they have the text since there was no link, but they probably will if you search the site, i would think.

edit:
i did a search for "realistic manifesto" on wikipedia. they link you to some excerpts, if that helps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_Manifesto

edit again:
whoops, i see youre doing it on tatlin's monument which isnt necessarily indicative of the principles in the manifesto i linked, since im pretty sure gabo split with him and lots of other soviet constructivists.
still, it might be helpful :mellow:

[Honggweilo]

whoops, i see youre doing it on tatlin's monument which isnt necessarily indicative of the principles in the manifesto i linked, since im pretty sure gabo split with him and lots of other soviet constructivists.
still, it might be helpful Yeah the realist manifesto was writen in reaction to tatlins views. The gudges Gabo had against the academic and ideological aspects of constructivism are manifested in there. But anyway its still some background info, thx :)