ABSTRACT
The Constructivist imaging vocabulary, the still accepted mainstream language for image and object-making, is a truly elitist and aristocratic visual language, with a clear hierarchical structure, made opaque by removing it from the common human experience and environment. Like all artificial languages, it has to be learned. It is jargon or expert lingo. It is not expansive. One can confine its vocabulary to a single page. It is not easily accessible to and apprehensible by the outsider. This language situates itself around a power history and the politics of the imaging worlds which exist from the times of the ancients, to the Vatican, through the epochs of nobles and the aristocracy, to today’s trendsetting educated rich, stimulated by ambitious academicians, without giving up any hint of its cultural coercion.
