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Watching the red dawn : the American avant-garde and the Soviet Union /
This title provides an examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation. From the formation of the USSR in 1922 until its recognition by the American government, American avant-garde artists, writers and designers watched the 'Red...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This title provides an examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation. From the formation of the USSR in 1922 until its recognition by the American government, American avant-garde artists, writers and designers watched the 'Red Dawn' with fascination, enthusiastically reporting on its post-revolutionary cultural developments in articles and books, and brought these works to an American audience in ground-breaking exhibitions. Americans also emulated and adapted aspects of Soviet culture, as in the case of the New Playwrights Theatre, a group that mixed Russian avant-garde theatrical techniques with jazz, vaudeville and slapstick comedy in plays about strikes and racial injustice. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations (black and white |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526109705 1526109700 1784997684 9781784997687 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |