Modernism plus avant-garde: constructing Soviet and post-Soviet design education in BSSR and Belarus

Abstract

by Alla Pigalskaya

The article shows how the Suprematist and Constructivist avant-garde line triggered off the formation and retention of the “Soviet” style in design education from the 1970s to the present, and remained as a kind of guide and meant the “golden age” in design in the post-Soviet period. The influence of the avant-garde consisted in the desire to get the state interested in the development of design as a global and monolithic project legitimized by “scientific” approaches rather than by the development of local industries and individualization.