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Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 19101930
Tim Harte
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Description for Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 19101930
Paperback. Presents an examination of the images and concepts of speed that permeated Russian modernist poetry, visual arts, and cinema. This title illustrates how a wide variety of experimental artistic tendencies of the day relied on notions of speed or dynamism to create at least part of their effects. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 colour, 15 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Life in the modernist era not only moved, it sped. As automobiles, airplanes, and high-speed industrial machinery proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century, a fascination with speed influenced artists - from Moscow to Manhattan - working in a variety of media. Russian avant-garde literary, visual, and cinematic artists were among those striving to elevate the ordinary physical concept of speed into a source of inspiration and generate new possibilities for everyday existence. Although modernism arrived somewhat late in Russia, the increased tempo of life at the start of the twentieth century provided Russia's avant-garde artists with an infusion ... Read more
Life in the modernist era not only moved, it sped. As automobiles, airplanes, and high-speed industrial machinery proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century, a fascination with speed influenced artists - from Moscow to Manhattan - working in a variety of media. Russian avant-garde literary, visual, and cinematic artists were among those striving to elevate the ordinary physical concept of speed into a source of inspiration and generate new possibilities for everyday existence. Although modernism arrived somewhat late in Russia, the increased tempo of life at the start of the twentieth century provided Russia's avant-garde artists with an infusion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299233242
SKU
V9780299233242
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About Tim Harte
Tim Harte is assistant professor of Russian language and literature at Bryn Mawr College.
Reviews for Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 19101930
Presents a fresh and insightful approach to the whole phenomenon of avant-garde art forms in Russia. - Barry P. Scherr, Dartmouth College