Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde : Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaingurt, Julia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Russian literature.
Machinery in literature.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Arts, Russian.
Art and technology.
Litterature russe > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Arts russes > 20e siecle.
Art et technologie.
Machines dans la litterature.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Russia (Federation) > History > 20th century.
Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Arts, Russian > 20th century.
Russia (Federation)
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: imaginative and instrumental technologies
  • Part 1. 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
  • Part 2. 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
  • Part 3. The homeland of technology
  • Convention, play, and technology in Russian explorers' American discoveries
  • Red Pinkertons: adventures in artificial reality
  • Conclusion: poetics of the unconscriptable.

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