The Struggle for utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy Nagy: 1917-1946.(Review) From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 1998| Author: Bliznakov, Milka | COPYRIGHT 1998 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Victor Margolin. The Struggle for utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy Nagy: 1917-1946.

Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997. XIII + 261 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Victor Margolin's book is a thoughtful investigation of the role of the avant-garde artists, Rodchenko, Lissitzky and Moholy-Nagy, as promoters of social change within the complex socio-political structure of Germany and the Soviet Union between the Wars. His resolve, to identify a Constructivist project in 1920'...

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