ConstructivismPublished in 1922 in Russian, Aleksei Gans Constructivism was the first theoretical treatise of postrevolutionary Russias emergent Constructivist movement. Fired with revolutionary zeal, it was unquestionably a declaration of war on traditional bourgeois art. Constructivism recasts artists and architects as Constructors, turning away from aesthetic or speculative problems in art and instead focusing on the fusion of art with everyday life in order to