Christina Lodder, Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design  This paper will consider Popova's engagement with textile design, focusing especially on the four years 1921-1924, which include the paintings that she was producing over this period, the theoretical context of her entry into design, as well as the actual designs that she executed for the First Textile Printing Factory (formerly the Tsindel factory) in Moscow between the summer of 1923 and her death in 1924.

Steve Edwards, Looking from the Left  Steve Edwards provides an introduction to this study day on Soviet Constructivism by asking what it means to look from the Left.

Paul Wood, Matthew Gale, Jason Gaiger, Jaime Gili, David Batchelor, Briony Fer and Amna Malik, Part 1 - Introduction  This study day is dedicated to the memory of Professor Charles Harrison, Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art at The Open University. On the occasion of two major exhibitions of abstract art, Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World and Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, this study day considers some of the broad issues and ideas associated with the concept of 'abstraction'.