MoMA exhibition of Stenberg Brothers back in 1997 offers some good summaries in the introduction.
INKhUK (INstitut KHUdozhestvennoy Kultury, or institute of artistic culture). Active: 1921-24.
There was a shift from the illustrator-as-creator to the constructor-as-creator or nonlinear-narrator-as-creator. In the visual language of the constructor or Constructivist, the Stenbergs and other graphic designers and artists assembled images, such as portions of photographs and preprinted paper, that had been created by others. Thus, the Stenbergs and others realized wholly new images (or compositions) which were no longer about realism. Hence, graphic design as a modern expression eschewing traditional fine art was born in the form of the printed reproductions of collage or assemblage.
Source: Wiki.
Some good sites to read more:
http://greenlanddesign.org/coleg/
Russian Constructivism
Kinofilm
Russo Graphica
Sinead Lau's blog
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