Description |
1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations (black and white |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Cover; Watching the red dawn; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the red Atlantic; 1. Constructivism in the USA: machine art and architecture at The Little Review exhibitions; 2. The mass and the machine: The New Playwrights Theatre and American radical Constructivism; 3. Kino in America: Soviet montage and the American cinematic avant-garde; 4. Camera eyes: the worker photography movement and the New Vision in America; Epilogue: red train journeys; Bibliography; Index. |
Summary |
This title provides an examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation. From the formation of the USSR in 1922 until its recognition by the American government, American avant-garde artists, writers and designers watched the 'Red Dawn' with fascination, enthusiastically reporting on its post-revolutionary cultural developments in articles and books, and brought these works to an American audience in ground-breaking exhibitions. Americans also emulated and adapted aspects of Soviet culture, as in the case of the New Playwrights Theatre, a group that mixed Russian avant-garde theatrical techniques with jazz, vaudeville and slapstick comedy in plays about strikes and racial injustice. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
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Soviet Union. |
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States.
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United States. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Haran, Barnaby. Watching the red dawn. 0719097223 9780719097225 (OCoLC)948972423 |
ISBN |
9781526109705 (electronic book) |
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1526109700 (electronic book) |
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1784997684 |
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9781784997687 |
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0719097223 |
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9780719097225 |
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