Gan's Constructivism

Aesthetic Theory for an Embedded Modernism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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This compelling new account of Russian constructivism repositions the agitator Aleksei Gan as the movement’s chief protagonist and theorist. Primarily a political organizer during the revolution and early Soviet period, Gan brought to the constructivist project an intimate acquaintance with the nuts and bolts of “making revolution.” Writing slogans, organizing amateur performances, and producing mass-media objects define an alternative conception of “the work of art”—no longer an autonomous object but a labor process through which solidarities are built. In an expansive analysis touching on aesthetic and architectural theory, the history of science and design, sociology, and feminist and political theory, Kristin Romberg invites us to consider a version of modernism organized around the radical flattening of hierarchies, a broad distribution of authorship, and the negotiation of constraints and dependencies. Moving beyond Cold War abstractions, Gan’s Constructivism offers a fine-grained understanding of what it means for an aesthetics to be political.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-01-22
Mått178 x 254 x 23 mm
Vikt998 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520298538

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Embedded Aesthetics andSituated History1. Critical Masses: Mass Action and the Prehistory ofRussian ConstructivismGAN’S CONSTRUCTIVISM2. Gan’s Constructivism: Aesthetic Theory for anEmbedded Modernism3. Constructivist Tectonics and the WegenerianRevolution4. The Typographic and Tectonic Conditions of Gan’sConstructivismGAN’S PRODUCTIVISM5. The Communist City: The Total Work of theConstructivist Object6. The Communist City, Side B: Montage and the ConcreteHuman Character7. Art in the Battle for Time: Cinematic Realism and theRationalization of LaborAbbreviations for Archival SourcesNotesList of IllustrationsIndex

"Kristin Romberg delivers an earth-shattering reevaluation of the Russian constructivist discipline of tectonics in her new biography of the art movement’s leading agit-man, Aleksei Gan. . . she has written such a tectonically textured testament to Gan—a book that attempts to synthetically respond to the demands of other fields external to history or Slavic studies—as might have made its protagonist proud."