Hastily cobbled-together first draft of a thesis, after visiting
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism at Tate Modern (and fondly remembering
a previous exhibition at the V&A):
SOVIET CONSTRUCTIVISM IS REALLY JUST MODERNISM WITHOUT A REDEEMING SENSE OF HUMOUR
In Soviet Russia Modernism laughs at you?
ReplyDeleteModernism had a sense of humour?
ReplyDeleteThey did accidentally invent the album cover though.
ReplyDeleteYes, GSE, a dry, hollow laugh, like the echo of an abandoned salt mine.
ReplyDeletePatroclus: Well the notes to The Waste Land are pretty droll.
Very true, Billy. And then they invented Shostakovich, so they had something to put inside.