Soviet Salvage: Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism

by Catherine Walworth

Book Overview

In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected "elitist" media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life.

Applying anthropological models borrowed from Claude L vi-Strauss, Walworth shows that his mythmaker typologies--the "engineer" and "bricoleur"--illustrate, respectively, the canonical Constructivists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271077700
• ISBN13: 9780271077703
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.1" x 9.5"