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Wonderlands of the avant-garde : technology and the arts in Russia of the 1920s /

In postrevolutionary Russia, as the Soviet government was initiating a program of rapid industrialization, avant-garde artists declared their intent to serve the nascent state and to transform life in accordance with their aesthetic designs. In spite of their professed utilitarianism, however, most...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vaingurt, Julia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2013]
Series:Studies in Russian literature and theory.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : imaginative and instrumental technologies
  • Homo faber, homo ludens. Poetry in motion : Aleksei Gastev and the aesthetic origins of soviet biomechanics ; The biomechanics of infidelity : range of motion and limits of control in Meyerhold's theater
  • Alternative technologies. Writing as bodily technology in Zamyatin's We, or a portrait of an avant-garde artist as a malfunctioning machine ; The incredible heights of organic architecture : Tatlin, Khlebnikov, and the technological sublime ; Olesha's suicide machine
  • The homeland of technology. Convention, play, and technology in Russian explorers' American discoveries ; Red Pinkertons : adventures in artificial reality
  • Conclusion : poetics of the unconscriptable.