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Artist as Producer : Russian Constructivism in Revolution
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gough, Maria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- INKhUK (Art school).
- Art--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Constructivism (Art)--Russia (Federation).
- Constructivism (Art)--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Constructivism (Art).
- Art--Russia (Federation).
- Art.
- Local Subjects:
- Art--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Constructivism (Art)--Russia (Federation).
- INKhUK (Art school).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Artist as Producer reshapes our understanding of the fundamental contribution of the Russian avant-garde to the development of modernism. Focusing on the single most important hotbed of Constructivist activity in the early 1920s-the Institute of Artistic Culture (INKhUK) in Moscow-Maria Gough offers a powerful reinterpretation of the work of the first group of artists to call themselves Constructivists. Her lively narrative ranges from famous figures such as Aleksandr Rodchenko to others who are much less well known, such as Karl Ioganson, a key member of the state-funded INKhUK who
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Made in Moscow; 1 Composition and Construction; 2 In the Laboratory of Constructivism; 3 Formulating Production; 4 The Death of the Object; 5 Red Technics: The Konstruktor in Production; Conclusion: Constructivism in Revolution; Glossary and Abbreviations; Notes; Selected Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-35647-X
- 9786612356476
- 0-520-92596-3
- OCLC:
- 609849932
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