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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Romberg, Kristin (1974-....)
Titre(s) : Gan's constructivism [Texte imprimé] : aesthetic theory for an embedded modernism / Kristin Romberg
Publication : Oakland, California : University of California press, 2018
Description matérielle : ix, 297 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"This groundbreaking 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"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Gan, Aleksej Mihajlovič (1893-1942)
Constructivisme (art)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520298538 (rel.). - ISBN 0520298535
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45687812r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45687812
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : Gan's constructivism: embedded aesthetics and situated history ;
Critical masses : mass action and the prehistory of Russian constructivism ; Gan's
constructivism : aesthetic theory for an embedded modernism ; Constructivist tectonics
and the Wegenerian revolution ; The typographic and tectonic conditions of Gan's
constructivism ; The communist city : the total work of the constructivist object
; The communist city, side b : Montage and the concrete human character ; Art in
the battle for time : cinematic realism and the rationalization of labor.
