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

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By (author): Timothy Harte

Translated by: Natalia Ryabchikova

Life in the modernist era not only moved, it sped. As automobiles, airplanes, and motion pictures, among other technological advances, proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century, speed transformed contemporary reality, generating new possibilities not only for everyday existence, but also for modernist culture. From Manhattan to Milan to Moscow, the rise of modernism coincided with a precipitous acceleration in the pace of human experience that may artists celebrated. Speed was soon aestheticized and converted from an ordinary, physical concept into a unique source of inspiration. Although modernism arrived somewhat late in Russia, the increased tempo of life at the start of the twentieth century provided Russias avant-garde movement with an infusion of creative dynamism and crucial momentum for its revolutionary experimentation. Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930 presents a detailed examination of the ideas and images of speed that permeated Russian modernist poetry, painting, and cinema. In probing this cultural phenomenon, which began in the early 1910s and continued to the late 1920s when formal innovation in the arts was overtaken by Stalins Five-Year Plans for rapid Soviet industrialization, Fast Forward explores how the idea of speed propelled the nations arts toward abstraction as well as toward the ideal of a dynamic, streamlined future. Speed, used as a powerful conceptual means for breaking down the figurative stasis of traditional representational art, provided the basis for a comprehensive reevaluation of everyday reality. Fostering a broad understanding of velocity, Russian avant-garde poets, painters, and filmmakers raced to establish a new artistic and social reality. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Sep 2022
  • Publisher: Academic Studies Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781644699928

About Timothy Harte

Tim Harte is Provost and Professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College. His academic research is focused on early 20 th -century Russian literature film and art. Harte is the author of Faster Higher Stronger Comrades! Sports Art and Ideology in Imperial Russian and Early Soviet Culture (2020) and Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture 1910-1930 (2009) as well as over 10 articles and book chapters including several on Nabokov and he is co-editor (with Marina Rojavin) on Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s: Conformity and Non-Conformity Amidst Decay (2021) and Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods (2018).

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