Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde Free

Author: Julia Vaingurt
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0810128942

Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s (SRLT)

In postrevolutionary Russia, as the Soviet government was initiating a program of rapid industrialization, avant-garde artists declared their intent to serve the nascent state and to transform life in accordance with their aesthetic designs. Get Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde literature books for free.
In spite of their professed utilitarianism, however, most avant-gardists created works that can hardly be regarded as practical instruments of societal transformation. Exploring this paradox, Vaingurt claims that the artists' investment of technology with aesthetics prevented their creations from being fully conscripted into the arsenal of political hegemony. The purposes of avant-garde technologies, she contends, are contemplative rather than constructive. Looking at Meyerhold's theater, Tatlin's and Khl Check Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.