Main entry:

Romberg, Kristin, author.

Title & Author:

Gan's constructivism : aesthetic theory for an embedded modernism / Kristin Romberg.

Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2018

Description:

ix, 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Embedded aesthetics and situated history -- Critical masses : mass action and the prehistory of Russian constructivism -- Gan's 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 -- Gan's Productivism. 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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780520298538 hardcover alkaline paper
0520298535 hardcover alkaline paper

Subject:

Gan, Alekseĭ.
Constructivism (Art) Soviet Union Themes, motives.
Constructivisme (Art) URSS Thèmes, motifs.
Soviet Union.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305786
Call No.: BIB 251636
Status: Available