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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vaingurt, Julia
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.
Series:	Studies in Russian literature and theory.
Subjects:	Machinery in literature. Art and technology. Arts, Russian > 20th century. Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Russia (Federation) > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.