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untitled (Dada) by Hannah H\u00f6ch
9.75″x13″; cut-and-pasted printed and colored paper on board; c. 1922. The Merrill C. Berman Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Alice and Tom Tisch, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, David Booth, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis, Jack Shear, the Patricia Bonfield Endowed Acquisition Fund for the Design Collection, Daniel and Jane Och, The Orentreich Family Foundation, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, The Modern Women\u2019s Fund; and by exchange: Gift of Jean Dubuffet in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colin, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, and the Richard S. Zeisler Bequest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York, USA
13 December 2020-10 April 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented” presents the political engagement, fearless and groundbreaking visual experimentation, and utopian aspirations of artists in the early 20th century. The exhibition showcases the activities of historical avant-gardes, including galvanizing works of Dada, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Futurism, and Russian Constructivism, and highlights such figures as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, John Heartfield, and Hannah H\u00f6ch. Drawn from the Museum\u2019s holdings from this period, the exhibition marks a recent acquisition of more than 300 works from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, one of the most significant collections of early 20th-century works on paper in private hands. “Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented” is organized by Jodi Hauptman, Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA, and Adrian Sudhalter, Consulting Curator, with Jane Cavalier, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The historic acquisition in 2018 from the Merrill C. Berman Collection transformed MoMA\u2019s holdings of early 20th-century avant-garde art from Soviet Russia; Weimar Germany; the newly constituted Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia; the Netherlands; and Italy, securing the Museum\u2019s position as the unmatched repository of art of this period. With its capacity to fill gaps and diversify modernism\u2019s narratives, this acquisition offers opportunities to share new and compelling stories, including those that are explicitly political, of the early 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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untitled (red square) by Max Burchartz
19.6875″x13.5625″; cut-and-pasted printed and colored paper on board; c. 1928. The Merrill C. Berman Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Alice and Tom Tisch, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, David Booth, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis, Jack Shear, the Patricia Bonfield Endowed Acquisition Fund for the Design Collection, Daniel and Jane Och, The Orentreich Family Foundation, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, The Modern Women\u2019s Fund; and by exchange: Gift of Jean Dubuffet in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colin, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, and the Richard S. Zeisler Bequest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Engineer, Agitator, Constructor” examines the far-reaching and profound impact of the era\u2019s momentous events\u2014World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to name a few\u2014and wholesale shifts in industry, technology, and labor. The exhibition demonstrates that in this age of upheaval, artists reimagined themselves as \u201cengineers,\u201d \u201cagitators,\u201d \u201cconstructors,\u201d \u201cphotomonteurs,\u201d and \u201cworkers.\u201d They turned away from painting and sculpture, inventing new, dynamic visual languages while working as propagandists, advertisers, publishers, editors, theater designers, curators, and more\u2014all as they robustly engaged in novel ways with expanded audiences and established new infrastructures for the presentation and distribution of their work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition also foregrounds the importance of collaboration and collectives and the strong continuities between the realms of fine art and graphic design in an age profoundly impacted by advances in photomechanical reproduction. Importantly, the exhibition illuminates the essential roles of women artists in avant-garde activities, while mapping vital networks of image makers, curators, publishers, and designers across Europe, connecting key city centers: Berlin to Warsaw, Paris to Budapest. Objects shown include propaganda, advertising, exhibition display, typography, books, journals, films, photography, and theater design, along with painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from the museum’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLAGE ON VIEW Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York, USA13 December 2020-10 April 2021 “Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented” presents the political engagement, fearless and groundbreaking visual experimentation,…<\/p>\n

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