Constructing the World traces the global convergence of artistic vocabularies–principally realism and the New Objectivity–between 1919 and 1939, also showing how the economic crisis of 1929 affected art. Works by Alexander Deineka, Otto Dix, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gustavs Klucis, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Reginald Marsh, Yury Pimenov, Alexander Rodchenko, Charles Sheeler, Karl Voelckers, Grant Wood and others are included.