Boris Arvatov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1896
Place of Birth: Vilkaviškis, Marijampolė County, Lithuania
Date of Death: 14-Jun-1940
Profession: writer, literary critic
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Boris Arvatov
- Boris Arvatov (1896 Kiev - 1940) was a Russian artist and art critic.
- He was active in the constructivist movement.Arvatov was involved with the Institute of Artistic Culture (INKhUK) when it was founded in 1920.
- Here he met fellow theorists Osip Brik, Boris Kushner and Nikolai Tarabukin with whom he developed the productivist approach to the role of the 'artist', which they wanted to be orientated towards a more industrial approach aimed at producing socially useful objects.He was one of the founders of LEF.
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