Tupitsyn, Margarita.

The Soviet photograph, 1924-1937 / Margarita Tupitsyn.

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.

x, 198 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Tupitsyn challenges the view that the Soviet avant-garde peaked in the 1920s and was subsequently forced to conform with Bolshevik politics. Instead she asserts that photography during this period represented the last "great experiment" in the search for the most effective ways to connect art, radical politics, and the masses. Investigating the means by which the new visual tools for disseminating revolutionary messages were adapted to the needs of Stalinist propaganda, Tupitsyn relates major examples of single-frame photography and photomontage to such events as the implementation of the New Economic Policy, Lenin's death, and Stalin's first and second Five-Year Plans, and to mounting censorship of the arts. She also establishes a link between the writings of critics and the development of photography and photomontage at this time. The book presents previously unpublished material from Klutsis's letters, Rodchenko's public lectures, Lissitzky's late writings on the mass media, and Kulagina's personal diaries, as well as many previously unknown photographs.

0300064500 (alk. paper)
9780300064506 (alk. paper)

Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Photography Soviet Union History.
Art and state Soviet Union.
Photographie URSS Histoire.
Art Politique gouvernementale URSS.
Art and state
Photography
Fotografie
Communisme.
Photography Russia.
Art and state Russia History 20th century.
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion

History
Books.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 115519
Cote: ID TR85.T87; ID:96-B2813
Statut: Disponible