Realistic Manifesto

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Realistic Manifesto is a seminal 1920 avant-garde text by sculptor Naum Gabo that set out the theoretical foundations of Constructivist art, emphasizing space, time, and modern materials over traditional mass and volume.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art manifesto
avant-garde text
artMovement Constructivist art
associatedWith Naum Gabo’s early kinetic works
post-Revolution Russian art debates
author Naum Gabo NERFINISHED
coAuthor Antoine Pevsner NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Russia
culturalContext post-1917 Russian Revolution art
dateWritten 1920
declares new principles for modern sculpture
emphasizes construction over carving and modeling
dynamic spatial relationships
integration of art and modern technology
focusesOn modern materials
space
time
genre theoretical text
hasAuthorRole Naum Gabo as sculptor-theorist
hasForm printed leaflet
hasInfluenceOn 20th-century avant-garde art theory
geometric abstraction
kinetic art
hasReception considered a seminal text of Constructivism
historicalPeriod Russian avant-garde NERFINISHED
inArtDiscipline abstract art
sculpture
influenced Constructivist sculpture
modernist sculpture theory
keyConcept art as construction in space and time
art as real space rather than depicted space
art as real time rather than implied time
rejection of illusionistic representation
use of industrial materials in art
language Russian
movement Constructivism NERFINISHED
opposes traditional mass in sculpture
traditional volume in sculpture
placeWritten Moscow NERFINISHED
publicationPlace Moscow NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1920
relatedTo Constructivist Manifesto NERFINISHED
Russian Futurism NERFINISHED
setsOut theoretical foundations of Constructivist art
subject abstraction in art
relationship between art and modern life
theory of sculpture
typeOfWork programmatic statement

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Naum Gabo wrote Realistic Manifesto