Imagine No Possessions The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism

Name: Imagine No Possessions The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism
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ISBN: 9780262112895

ISBN-10: 0262112892

ISBN-13: 9780262112895

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christina Kiaer

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In "Imagine No Possessions, Christina Kiaer investigates the Russian Constructivist conception of objects as more than commodities. "Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades," wrote Alexander Rodchenko in 1925. Kiaer analyzes this Constructivist counterproposal to capitalism's commodity fetish by examining objects produced by Constructivist artists between 1923 and 1925: Vladimir Tatlin's prototype designs for pots and pans and other everyday objects, Liubov Popova's and Varvara Stepanova's fashion designs and textiles, Rodchenko's packaging and advertisements for state-owned businesses (made in collaboration with revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky), and Rodchenko's famous…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/19/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 8.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

Christina Kiaer is Associate Professor of Art History at Columbia University and author of Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism.Eric Naiman is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology.



List of Illustrations


List of Color Plates


Acknowledgments



The Socialist Object



Everyday Objects



The Constructivist Flapper Dress



Constructivist Advertising and Bolshevik Business



Rodchenko in Paris



Epilogue: The Last Possession


Notes


Bibliography


Index