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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Ill. :
Northwestern University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Studies in Russian literature and theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.