constructivism

Etymology

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1. 1

   A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational…

   A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.

   • Constructivism wasn't just Russian state propaganda - its blend of optimism and pragmatism and its emphasis on equality and the collective prefigured key developments in 20th-century art.
   • Art in the first half of the 20th century was powerfully shaped by Constructivism and Supremicism in the East and by Cubism, Futurism, and Surrealism in the West.
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   A style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early…

   A style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s.

   • Many masterpieces of Soviet constructivism are now crumbling under capitalism, replaced by pastiche architecture or pale replicas of former buildings.
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   A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.

   • At bottom, constructivism opposes axiomatization as the fundamental idea in mathematics.
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      A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from…

      A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.

      • According to constructivism, all systems are artificial abstractions. They are not made by nature and presented to use to be discovered, but we construct them by our perceptual and mental capabilities with the domain of our experiences.
      • Montessori subscribed to constructivism, a theory of education that says students do better if we let them piece together how the world works by moving through it themselves than if we deliver knowledge top-down.

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