Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930

by Tim Harte

Life in the modernist era not only moved, it sped. As automobiles, airplanes, and high-speed industrial machinery proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century, a fascination with speed influenced artists--from Moscow to Manhattan--working in a variety of media. Russian avant-garde literary, visual, and cinematic artists were among those striving to elevate the ordinary physical concept of speed into a source of inspiration and generate new possibilities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299233243
• ISBN13: 9780299233242
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"