TY - BOOK AU - Vaingurt,Julia ED - Project Muse. TI - Wonderlands of the avant-garde: technology and the arts in Russia of the 1920s T2 - Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory SN - 9780810166523 AV - N6988.5.A83 V35 2013 U1 - 891.70911 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Evanston, Ill. PB - Northwestern University Press KW - Machinery in literature KW - Art and technology KW - Arts, Russian KW - 20th century KW - Russian literature KW - History and criticism KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Russia (Federation) KW - History KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780810166523/ ER -