Gan's Constructivism: Aesthetic Theory for an Embedded ModernismThis 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. |
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... Communist City : The Total Work of the Constructivist Object / 133 6. The Communist City , Side B : Montage and the Concrete Human Character / 167 7. Art in the Battle for Time : Cinematic Realism and the Rationalization of Labor / 195 ...
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Contents
Mass Action and the Prehistory | 21 |
Aesthetic Theory for | 55 |
Constructivist Tectonics and the Wegenerian | 77 |
Constructivism | 107 |
The Total Work of | 133 |
Montage and the Concrete | 167 |
Cinematic Realism and | 195 |
Abbreviations for Archival Sources | 235 |
List of Illustrations | 283 |
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