Soviet Salvage: Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism
Awards:   Nominated for Robert Motherwell Book Award 2017
Author:   Catherine Walworth
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Volume:   23
ISBN:  

9780271077697


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   10 October 2017
Format:   Hardback
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  • Nominated for Robert Motherwell Book Award 2017

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Author:   Catherine Walworth
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Volume:   23
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.338kg
ISBN:  

9780271077697


ISBN 10:   0271077697
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   10 October 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction 1 The Economic Shaping of Constructivism 2 A Blank Slate: The First Years of Soviet Propaganda Porcelain 3 Nadezhda Lamanova: On the Elegant Fringes of Constructivist Dress 4 Esfir Shub: “Magician of the Editing Table” 5 The Five-Year Plan Prompts a Fire Sale Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Perhaps the most salient feature of Russian Constructivism is that its universal reputation rests not upon what it produced, but rather upon its unfulfilled intentions, dreams, blueprints, and prototypes. Drawing on rare bibliographical and archival sources and moving across film, photography, fashion, book design, and other media, Catherine Walworth describes the 'sweet nothings' of the Constructivists by emphasizing their reliance on the 'salvage' of throwaway objects, built-in obsolescence, chance, and art trouve. In this way she brings to bear an alternative and refreshing light upon the later phase of the Russian avant-garde, offering us a truly synthetic and interdisciplinary assessment. --John E. Bowlt, author of Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934


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Catherine Walworth is Curator at the Columbia Museum of Art and co-author of Silver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk.

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