Konstantin Akinsha: The Second Life of Soviet Photomontage, 1935-1980s (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art history, avant-garde, cinema, constructivism, film, ideology, montage, photography, photomontage, politics, propaganda, russia, socialist realism, soviet union
“This dissertation explores the development of Soviet photomontage from the second half of the 1930s to the end of the 1970s. Until now, the transformation of the modernist medium and its incorporation into the everyday practice of Soviet visual propaganda during and after the Second World War has not attracted much scholarly attention. The firm association of photomontage with the Russian avant-garde in general, and with Constructivism in particular, has led art historians to disregard the fact that the medium was practised in the USSR until the final days of the Soviet system. The conservative government organisations in control of propaganda preserved satirical photomontage in its post-Dadaist phase and Heartfield-like form, finding it useful in the production of negative propaganda.”
Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation
University of Edinburgh, 2012
328 pages + 368 pages of illustrations
PDF (29 MB)
Comment (0)Leslie Martin, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo (eds.): Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art (1937/1971)
Filed under book | Tags: · abstract art, abstraction, architecture, art, art criticism, art history, art theory, avant-garde, constructivism, painting, sculpture
This book contains work and writings by virtually all the leading architects and artists of the international constructivism of the 1930s.
First published in London, 1937.
Reprinted by Praeger Publishers, New York, 1971
viii+291 pages
in the Unlimited Edition
PDF (58 MB, no OCR)
Comment (1)Jack Burnham: The Structure of Art (1971/1973)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, art theory, avant-garde, cybernetics, semiotics, structuralism, systems theory
Jack Burnham was a writer on art and technology, curator of the 1970 Software show, and one of the main forces behind the emergence of systems art in the 1960s. In his second book, The Structure of Art, Burnham “developed one of the first systematic methods for applying structural analysis to the interpretation of individual artworks as well as to the canon of western art history itself.”
Publisher George Braziller, New York, 1971
Revised edition, 1973
ISBN 0807605956, 9780807605950
195 pages
PDF (69 MB, no OCR)
PDF (19 MB, OCR’d version via Marcell Mars, added on 2015-4-16)
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