Utopian Reality
Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond
Gebonden Engels 2013 9789004263208Samenvatting
This collection of essays deals broadly with the visual and cultural manifestation of utopian aspirations in Russia of the 1920s and 1930s, while examining the before- and after-life of such ideas both geographically and chronologically. The studies document the pluralism of Russian and Soviet culture at this time as well as illuminating various cultural strategies adopted by officialdom. The result serves to complicate the excessively simplistic narrative that avant-garde dreams were suddenly and brutally crushed by Soviet repression and to contest the notion of the avant-garde’s complicity in Stalinism. Naturally, some essays document episodes in the defeat and dismantling of utopian projects, but others trace the persistence of avant-garde ideas and the astonishing tenacity of creative individuals who managed to retain their personal integrity while continuing to serve the cause of Soviet power.
Contributors include: John E. Bowlt, Natalia Budanova, David Crowley, Evgeny Dobrenko, Maria Kokkori, Christina Lodder, Muireann Maguire, Nicholas Bueno de Mesquita, Maria Mileeva, John Milner, Nicoletta Misler, Maria Starkova-Vindman, Brandon Taylor, and Maria Tsantsanoglou.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Utopia and Dystopia: The Impulse of History
Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva
1. Dreaming of the City: Mikhail Larionov’s Provincial Dandy
John Milner
2. Utopic Sex: The Metamorphosis of Androgynous Imagery in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russian Art
Natalia Budanova
3. The Soviet Icarus: From the Dream of Free Flight to the Nightmare of Free Fall
Maria Tsantsanoglou
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4. Theo van Doesburg and Russia: Utopia Thwarted
Nicholas de Mesquita
5. Fighting for a Utopian Childhood: Militarism in Children’s Periodicals of the Early USSR
Maria Starkova-Vindmann
6. Spectral Geographies of Soviet Russia: Émigré Visions of Impossible Returns
Muireann Maguire
7. Twice removed: Pavel Filonov and Nikolai Glebov-Putilovskii
Nicoletta Misler
8. Exhibiting Kazimir Malevich under Stalin
Maria Kokkori
9. The Old and the New: Solomon Nikritin and Polyrealizm
John E. Bowlt
10. The Ghost in the Machine: The Modernist Architectural Utopia under Stalin
Christina Lodder
11. Petrified Utopia: Socialist Realism and Stasis
Evgeny Dobrenko
12. Utopia in Retreat: The Closure of the State Museum of New Western Art, 1948
Maria Mileeva
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13. The Body Electric: Cybernetics in East European Art in the 1960s Eastern Bloc
David Crowley
14. Geometry after Utopia
Brandon Taylor
Notes on the Contributors
Index
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