... artists embraced the group's ideas, including lyubov' Popova, Gustav Klucis, Anton Lavinsky (1893-1968), the painter and architect Aleksandr Vesnin and the architect Moisey Ginzburg. Initially, the theatre served as a crucible for developing an appropriate visual environment to express the new way of life. The first Constructivist stage set was Popova's design for Vsevolod Meyerhold's production of Fernand Crommelynck's farce The ... ...

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