UID:
almafu_9959230960502883
Format:
1 online resource :
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illustrations (black and white)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78499-812-5
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1-5261-0970-0
Content:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2016.
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-9722-3
Language:
English
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