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Wonderlands of the avant-garde

Vaingurt, Julia.

Wonderlands of the avant-garde technology and the arts in Russia of the 1920s / [electronic resource] : Julia Vaingurt. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (300 p.) - Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780810166523


Machinery in literature.
Art and technology.
Arts, Russian--20th century.
Russian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--Russia (Federation)--20th century.


Electronic books.

N6988.5.A83 / V35 2013

891.70911