Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics
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Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics

Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union

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Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics

Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union

About this book

Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics presents an innovative look at the Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences in the 1920s. The book examines some of the lesser known entanglements between architects, filmmakers and philosophers, on the one hand, and experimental psychologists and physiologists on the other. In Russia, famous avant-garde artists, such as El Lissitzky, Vassily Kandinsky and Dziga Vertov, helped propagate a movement referred to as "psychotechnics" that was emerging at the time in Germany and the United States and eventually led to a "psychotechnical boom." At the end of the story told in the book, it becomes clear that this boom continues to the present day. By analyzing concrete projects undertaken by Russian artists and scientists in cooperation with one another, and by drawing on as-yet-unpublished archival material, Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics challenges the established notion of socialist sciences. At the same time, it provides an entirely new picture of what was thought to be modern art, thereby demonstrating that artistic experimentation had much more than a mere metaphorical meaning in Russian arts in the 1920s.

In 2007 Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics was acknowledged with an award for interdisciplinary research by the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Society, Großbothen. In 2011 the book received funding from the VolkswagenStiftung to be translated into English and Russian (the Russian edition was published by NLO books in 2019). The original German edition also received favorable reviews in NZZ, NTM, Derive, Junge Welt and Sehepunkte.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032532646
eBook ISBN
9781000911077
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Russian History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface to the English Edition
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Transliteration
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Feed(ing) Back: Nicolai Ladovsky's Psychotechnical Laboratory for Architecture, Moscow 1921-1927
  13. 2 Networking: Vsevolod Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain - Film as Reflexology, Leningrad/Moscow 1925-1926
  14. 3 Grafting: Alexander Bogdanov's Circular Blood Transfusions, Moscow 1924-1928
  15. Conclusion: Feeding Back, Networking and Grafting as Cultural Techniques
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index