If anyone is interested in my bizarre attempt at Greek constructivist type (or Cyrillic or Latin) the link is:

http://typophile.com/node/18796

Scroll to the the end for the Greek and Cyrillic post.

ChrisL

Of course one can’t really cram all things “constructivist” under one roof. What I’d really be interested to know is if there was any sort of dialogue between Greece and the West, or between Greece and Soviet Russia at this time.

Malevich, Van Doesberg, El Lizitsky, Jan (here Iwan) Tschichold, Paul Klee, Kurt Schwitters, Mondrian, et al. … these people didn’t all have much in common with everyone else necessarially, but in hindsight it is easy to put them all in the same “box,” even if that oversimplifies things. Did they have any “copiers” in Greece? Artists trying to follow along the same lines?

Were there Greek Communists/Bolsheviks? What did their graphics look like? Soviet Russia laid heavy on the propaganda during the 1920s and 30s. Did any of this make it to Greece?

I am one of the “enquiring minds who wants to know” all that as well Dan:-) Thanks for adding your wisdom and clarifying my question.
I would be curious if it were just a Central and Eastern Europe thing? Eventually Italy ended up with its birth of Modernism and the oft blasted Massimo must have learned his trade somehow but Greece? xero ego?

Ποιος ξέρει;

ChrisL

Rodchenko did some really kool propaganda stuff early on. It all became visually boring later in the height of the Stalin era.

ChrisL

It’s not on your topic...
though, in another relation.

Thanks Thomas! That is a great source!

ChrisL