Laboratory of Dreams
Russian Avant-garde and Cultural Experiment
Published on 1. August 1996
Book
Hardback
346 pages
978-0-8047-2553-8 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing upon social history, material culture, and the sciences, this is the first interdisciplinary study of the Russian avant-garde, a brilliant constellation of personalities and ideas that changed the course of Russian culture just before and after the First World War. Though different in creative systems and applications, the artists and writers of the Russian avant-garde shared certain fundamental attitudes toward the purpose of culture, believing, for example, that art had the power to change 'life', even as defined by science. The essays discuss the many refractions of that common denominator, treating the avant-garde not as a purely artistic and literary movement, but as a multifarious phenomenon that included cultural experimentation normally considered beyond the confines of the avant-garde.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
50 half-tones
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
704 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-2553-8 (9780804725538)
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Content
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 a nd 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.