Main entry:

Cohen, Jean-Louis, author, curator.

Title & Author:

Building a new New World : Amerikanizm in Russian architecture / Jean-Louis Cohen ; [translated by Luba Markovskaia].

Edition:

English edition.

Publication:

Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2020]
New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Distributed by Yale University Press
©2020

Description:

544 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition presented at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction -- Czarist Russia and its Americas -- Taylorism and Fordism for the Soviet industrial development -- Avant-garde Amerikanizm -- Architectural Amerikanizm in the early phase of Stalinism -- War and peace : from Alliance to competition -- Krushchev and his successors : reaching, surpassing, and forgetting America -- Index and credits
Text in English, translated from the French.

Exhibitions:

"Published by the Canadian Center for Architecture and Yale University Press in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, organized by and preseneted at the CCA from 12 November 2019 to 5 April 2020." -- Colophon.

Summary:

"An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful concept of "Amerikanizm" and its impact on Russia's built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World's Fairs of the 19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics" -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780300248159 (paperback)
0300248156 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Soviet Union American influences Exhibitions.
Architecture and society Soviet Union Exhibitions.
Architecture Soviet Union Exhibitions.
Architecture URSS Influence américaine Expositions.
Architecture et société URSS Expositions.
Architecture URSS Expositions.
Architecture American influences Soviet Union Exhibitions.
Architecture History Soviet Union Exhibitions.
Architecture History Russia Exhibitions. 20th century.
Architecture
Architecture American influences
Architecture Soviet Union History Exhibitions.
Architecture Russia History 20th century Exhibitions.
Soviet Union.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Essays.
Illustrated works.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Markovskaia, Luba, translator.
Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
Canada Québec Montréal.

Amerikanizm in Russian architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library study room cca productions 309489
Call No.: NA1188 .C6414 2020
Copy: c. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 309487
Call No.: 2019-5a
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 309488
Call No.: 2019-5a
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 309490
Call No.: BIB 254719
Copy: c. 4
Status: External loan