TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vöhringer,Margarete
AU  - Vöhringer,Margarete
TI  - Avant-garde and psychotechnics: science, art and technology in the early Soviet Union 
T2  - Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945
SN  - 9781003411185
U1  - 709.47/0904 23/eng/20230227
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Art, Russian
KW  - Psychology and art
KW  - Art and technology
KW  - ART / History / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
N1  - Translation of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2006, under the title: Avantgarde und Psychotechnik : Wissenschaft, Kunst und Technik der Wahrnehmungsexperimente in der frühen Sowjetunion
N2  - "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. Famous avant-garde artists like El Lissitzky, Vassily Kandinsky and Dziga Vertov helped propagate a movement in Russia - psychotechnics -, that was actually coming from Germany and America and can be characterized as "psychotechnical boom". At the end of the story told in this book, it becomes clear, that this boom has not finished until today. By analyzing concrete co-operations between artists and scientists and on the basis of not yet published archival material, this book challenges the notion of socialist sciences. At the same time, it gives an entirely new picture of what was thought to be modern art and makes clear, that artistic experimentation had much more than a metaphorical meaning in the arts of the Russian 1920s. In 2007 the book was acknowledged with an award for interdisciplinary research by the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Society, Grossbothen. In 2011 the book received funding by the VolkswagenStiftung to be translated into English and Russian (the Russian edition was published by NLO books in 2019). The book got reviews in NZZ, NTM, Derive, Junge Welt, Sehepunkte"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003411185
ER  -