Varvara Stepanova was closely associated with the Constructivist movement. She worked with artists, such as, Popova and Rodchenko at Tsindel, the first state textile factory near Moscow as a designer in 1923. In 1924, she became professor of textile design at the Vkhutemas (founded in 1920 in Moscow as the new Higher Technical Artistic Studios) while continuing typography, book design and contributing to the magazine LEF. Her textiles are examples of her attempt to devote herself to practical industrial design. She was interested in production art, not art for art sake. She argued for the primacy of technology and industry and wrote:
“Composition is the contemplative approach of the artist. Technique and Industry have confronted art with the problem of construction as an active process and not reflective. The ‘sanctity’ of a work as a single entity is destroyed. The museum which was the treasury of art is now transformed into an archive’.”
CONTENT 