Margarete Vöhringer

Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics (eBook, PDF)

Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union

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Produktbeschreibung

The book presents a different history of the Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences. It is focusing on the entanglements of architects, filmmakers and philosophers with experimental psychologists and physiologists in the 1920s which are hardly known yet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000911039
• Artikelnr.: 68379560

Autorenporträt

Margarete Vöhringer is currently Professor for the Materiality of Knowledge at Georg-August-University Göttingen. Her research interests include materiality and aesthetics of the sciences, connections between art and science, history of collecting and exhibiting, Russian avant-garde, and cultural techniques of seeing. She has co-edited several anthologies: Sehstörungen. Grenzwerte des Visuellen in Künsten und Wissenschaften (with Anne Kathrin Reulecke, Berlin 2019); Wissenschaft im Museum - Ausstellung im Labor (with Anke Te Heesen, Berlin 2014) and Phantome im Labor: Die Verbreitung der Reflexe in Hirnforschung, Kunst und Technik. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 32(1), 2009 (with Yvonne Wübben).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Feed(ing) Back: Nicolai Ladovsky's Psychotechnical
Laboratory for Architecture, Moscow 1921-1927 2. Networking: Vsevolod
Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain - Film as Reflexology, Leningrad/Moscow
1925-1926. 3. Grafting: Alexander Bogdanov's Circular Blood Transfusions,
Moscow 1924-1928. Conclusion: Feeding Back, Networking and Grafting as
Cultural Techniques.