| Description |
xvii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Note on transliteration, Russian place names, and dates -- Contributors -- Introduction John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich -- Part I. Life Creation: The Search for a New Body: 1. The transfiguration of cannibals: Fedorov and the Avant-Garde Irene Masing-Delic -- 2. Body beautiful: the artistic search for the perfect physique John E. Bowlt -- 3. Remaking the bed: Utopia in daily life Olga Matich -- Part II. Scientific Discovery adn Cultural Innovation: 4. Media fantasies and penetrating vision: some links between X-rays, the microscope, and film Yuri Tsivian -- 5. Tsiolkovsky as a moment in the prehistory of the Avant-Garde Michael Holquist -- 6. Toward an exact aesthetics: Pavel Florensky and the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences Nicoletta Misler -- 8. Development or rebuilding: views of academician T. D. Lysenko in the context of the late Avant-Garde Boris Gasparov -- Part III. Word and Image: Manipulating Semiotic Systems: 9. The sacred profaned: image and word in the paintings of Mikhail Larionov John E. Malmstad -- 10. The profane made sacred: the theology of the Oberiu declaration Sarah Pratt -- Part IV. Socialist Realism as Radical Experiment: 11. The birth of socialist realism from the spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde Boris Groys -- 12. Dmitrii Furmanov's Chapaev and the aesthetics of the Russian Avant-Garde Ronald Vroon -- 13. Platonov, socialist realism, and the legacy of the Avant-Garde Thomas Seifrid -- 14. Eisenstein's poetics: dialogical or totalitarian? Alexander Zholkovsky -- Postscript: the Avant-Garde and the retrospectives as players in the evolution of Stalinist culture Katerina Clark -- Notes -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-342) and index |
| SUBJECT |
Russia -- Civilization -- 1801-1917.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125715
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Russia -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010111677
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USSR -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125714
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USSR -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125826
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| Author |
Bowlt, John E.
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Matich, Olga.
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| LC no. |
95036491 |
| ISBN |
0804725535 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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