Main entry:

Cooke, Catherine.

Title & Author:

Russian avant-garde : theories of art, architecture, and the city / Catherine Cooke.

Publication:

London : Academy Editions, ©1995.

Description:

208 pages : illustrations, plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword (starting p. 4) -- 1 Precursors: Rationalism, Nationalism and the Schools (starting p. 6) -- 2 New Artistic Foundations (starting p. 14) -- 3 Avant-Garde Or Tradition? The Revolutionary Street Festivals (starting p. 17) -- 4 What Should a Soviet Architecture Be? Professional Diversity and Its Origins (starting p. 25) -- 5 Constructivism: From Tatlin and Rodchenko to a 'Functional Method' for Building Design (starting p. 99) -- 6 Ginzburg and Le Corbusier: Engineering and the Modern State of Mind (starting p. 122) -- 7 Approaches to Rationalising Soviet Building Practice: Constructivists and Melnikov (starting p. 132) -- 8 Melnikov and the Changing Focus of Western Literature on the Russian Avant-Garde (starting p. 141) -- 9 Malevich: Suprematism as the Space of Energy (starting p. 158) -- 10 Students and Teachers: Avant-Garde Architecture in the Schools (starting p. 178) -- 11 Static Form Or Dynamic System? Rationalist and Constructivist Approaches to the City (starting p. 188) -- 12 Constructivism, Suprematism and Historicism: Leonidov's Urbanism and Narkomtiazhprom (starting p. 200) -- Indexes (starting p. 206)
Also issued online.

Summary:

Distributed by St. Martin's, Auth: Open University, History with translated excerpts of documents.

ISBN:

185490390X (paperback)
9781854903907 (paperback)

Subject:

Avant Garde Musikgruppe
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia (Federation) History 20th century.
Art, Russian 20th century.
Socialist realism in art.
Architecture Russia (Federation) History.
Avant-garde (Esthétique) Russie Histoire 20e siècle.
Art russe 20e siècle.
Réalisme socialiste dans l'art.
Architecture Russie 20e siècle.
Architecture Russie Histoire.
Architecture.
Art, Russian.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Kunst
Künste
Stadtplanung
Ästhetik
Avantgarde
Bouwkunst.
Stadsplanning.
Avant-garde.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Russia 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Russia.
Russia (Federation)
Sowjetunion

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 119177
Call No.: ID NA1188.5.C64 C6; ID:95-B1785
Status: Available