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Soviet Salvage:

Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism
  • ISBN-13: 9780271077697
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Catherine Walworth
  • Price: AUD $206.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2017
  • Format: Hardback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Examines how Russian Constructivist artists in the 1920s imagined a new physical environment through the creation of recycled and reappropriated objects.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note to the Reader

Introduction

1 The Economic Shaping of Constructivism

2 A Blank Slate: The First Years of Soviet Propaganda Porcelain

3 Nadezhda Lamanova: On the Elegant Fringes of Constructivist Dress

4 Esfir Shub: “Magician of the Editing Table”

5 The Five-Year Plan Prompts a Fire Sale

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Perhaps the most salient feature of Russian Constructivism is that its universal reputation rests not upon what it produced, but rather upon its unfulfilled intentions, dreams, blueprints, and prototypes. Drawing on rare bibliographical and archival sources and moving across film, photography, fashion, and other media, Catherine Walworth describes the ‘sweet nothings’ of the Constructivists by emphasizing their reliance on the ‘salvage’ of throwaway objects, built-in obsolescence, chance, and art trouvé. In this way she brings to bear an alternative and refreshing light upon the later phase of the Russian avant-garde, offering us a truly synthetic and interdisciplinary assessment.”

—John E. Bowlt, author of Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902–1934

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