Architecture of the Off-Modern - Brossura

Boym, Svetlana

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1568987781 ISBN 13: 9781568987781

Casa editrice: Princeton Architectural Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Svetlana Boym's Architecture of the Off-Modern is an imaginative tour through the history and afterlife of Vladimir Tatlin's legendary but unbuilt Monument to the Third International of 1920. Generally considered to be the defining expression of architectural constructivism, the structure was envisioned as a towering symbol of modernity and a twisting, turning memorial and media center for the Bolshevik Revolution that would have dwarfed the Eiffel Tower. Boym traces the vicissitudes of Tatlin's tower from its reception in the 1920s to its privileged recall in "the reservoir of unofficial utopian dreams" of the Soviet era. Boym offers an alternative history of modernism, postulating the "architecture of adventure" as a poetic model for "third route" thinking about technology, history, and aesthetic culture.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Svetlana Boym is professor of Slavic languages and literatures and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. She is also a media artist, curator, and author of The Future of Nostalgia, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia, and Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Architectural Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1568987781
• ISBN 13: 9781568987781
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 80
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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