Exploding Tongues: Language, Art, and the Russian Avant-garde

Hand

The photograph of an anonymous hand in the piece can be interpreted as that of a worker, a proletarian, but more importantly the use of the photograph situates the art in the "real world." The hand is also holding a compass, an architectural tool, which calls attention to the architect (being synonymous with "the artist" in the context of constructivism) as the subject of the piece.

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