Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde

PublisherNorthwestern University Press
Publisher SeriesStudies in Russian Literature and Theory
Series EditorGary Saul Morson
Published with Assistance fromAndrew W. Mellon Foundation
Cover/Jacket Design byMarianne Jankowski
Cover Art byVladimir Tatlin
FormatTrade Paperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationUnited States
Copyright2013
This Edition Published2013
Pages / Font308 pages
ISBN 139780810136113
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number2012033499
ChaptersIntroduction - Imaginative and Instrumental Technologies, 3 Part I. Homo Faber, Homo Ludens Chapter 1 - Poetry In Motion:Aleksei Gastev and the Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Biomechanics, 25 Chapter 2 - The Biomechanics of Infidelity: Range of Motion and Limits of Control in Meyerhold's Theater, 54 Part II. Alternative Technologies Chapter 3 - Writing as Bodily Technology in Zamyatin's We, or a Portrait of an Avant-Garde Artist as a Malfunctioning Machine, 87 Chapter 4 - The Incredible Heights of Organic Architecture: Tatlin, Khlebnikov, and the Technological Sublime, 101 Chapter 5 - Olesha's Suicide Machine, 133 Part III. The Homeland of Technology Chapter 6 - Convention, Play, and Technology in Russian Explorers' American Discoveries, 149 Chapter 7 - Red Pinkertons: Adventures in Artificial Reality, 182 Conclusion - Poetics of the Unconscriptable, 224 Notes, 233 Works Cited, 279 Index, 295
Notessubtitle: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s front cover art: Tatlin's drawing of The Monument to the Third International, 1920.
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