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Gutenberg Goes Overboard: How the Russian Futurists Defied Convention in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Author(s):
- Christine Jacobson (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Subject(s):
- Books, History, Art, Russian, Twentieth century, Russian literature
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- Harvard-Yale History of the Book Conference
- Conf. Org.:
- The Yale Program in the History of the Book and the History of the Book Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
- Conf. Loc.:
- New Haven, CT
- Conf. Date:
- April 19, 2016
- Tag(s):
- Book history, Russian and Soviet art, Early 20th-century Russian art
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/exx5-5p64
- Abstract:
- This paper examines two approaches I argue most successfully transformed the conventional book and in doing so, challenged Walter Benjamin’s paradigm for art in the “age of mechanical reproduction.” These includes the neo-primitivist approach, in which artists looked to a pre-Gutenberg era for inspiration, and the ferroconcrete approach which looked to redefine the artist’s relationship to typography. To illustrate my argument, I examine the works of two Russian Futurists, Aleksei Kruchenykh who typifies the primitivist approach, and Vasily Kamensky, who invented the ferroconcrete approach.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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Gutenberg Goes Overboard: How the Russian Futurists Defied Convention in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction