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Utopian reality : reconstructing culture in revolutionary Russia and beyond /

This collection of essays deals broadly with the visual and cultural manifestation of utopian aspirations in Russia of the 1920s and 1930s, while examining the before- and after-life of such ideas both geographically and chronologically.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lodder, Christina, 1948- (Editor), Kokkori, Maria (Editor), Mileeva, Maria (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2013]
Series:Russian history and culture ; volume 14.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Utopia and dystopia : the impulse of history / Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva
  • Dreaming of the city : Mikhail Larionov's Provincial dandy, 1907 / John Milner
  • Utopian sex : the metamorphosis of androgynous imagery in Russian art of the pre- and post-revolutionary period / Natalia Budanova
  • The Soviet Icarus : from the dream of free flight to the nightmare of free fall / Maria Tsantsanoglou
  • Theo van Doesburg and Russia : utopia thwarted / Nicholas Bueno de Mesquita
  • Fighting for a utopian childhood : militarism in children's periodicals of the early Soviet Union / Maria Starkova-Vindman
  • Spectral geographies in Russian emigre prose : the cases of Petr Krasnov and Georgii Peskov / Muireann Maguire
  • Twice removed : Pavel Filonov and Nikolai Glebov-Putilovskii / Nicoletta Misler
  • Exhibiting Malevich under Stalin / Maria Kokkori
  • Solomon Nikritin : the old and the new / John E. Bowlt
  • The ghost in the machine : the modernist architectural utopia under Stalin / Christina Lodder
  • Socialist realism and stasis / Evgeny Dobrenko
  • Utopia in retreat : the closure of the State Museum of New Western Art in 1948 / Maria Mileeva
  • The art of cybernetic communism / David Crowley
  • Geometry after utopia / Brandon Taylor.