Main entry:

Wolf, Erika, 1963-

Title & Author:

USSR in construction : from avant-garde to socialist realist practice / by Erika Maria Wolf.

Publication:

1999.

Description:

2 v. : ill., facsims., ports ; 28 cm.

Notes:
"This dissertation explores the persistence, modification, and transformation of Soviet avant-garde representational practice in light of the emergence of Socialist Realism during the early 1930s through a study of the photographic magazine SSSR na stroike (USSR in Construction; 1930-1941, 1949)"--P. 2.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references.
The origins and audience of SSSR na stroike -- The development of the Soviet narrative photo-essay (fotoocherk) -- "Giant and builder" -- The representation of Dneprostroi in SSSR na stroike -- Modernism's willing executioner? : Aleksandr Rodchenko at the White Sea Canal.
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2008. 2 v. in 1 (xviii, 439 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm. UMI no.: 3079567.

Subject:

Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, 1891-1956.
Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941.
Dniprohes imeni V.I. Lenina.
SSSR na stroĭke.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Soviet Union History 20th century.
Socialist realism in art Soviet Union History 20th century.
Réalisme socialiste dans l'art URSS Histoire 20e siècle.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Socialist realism in art
White Sea-Baltic Canal (Russia)
Belomorsko-Baltijskij Kanal (Russie)
Russia (Federation) White Sea-Baltic Canal
Soviet Union
Periodicals Soviet Union 1920-1940.
Avant-garde Soviet Union 1930-1940.
Socialist Realism Soviet Union 1930-1940.
Photojournalism Soviet Union 1930-1940.
Representation (form of expression) Soviet Union 1930-1940.

Form/genre:

Theses.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257390
Call No.: N6988.5.A83 W6 1999
Status: Available