Kohonen Iina Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor 9781783207428

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Автор: Kohonen Iina
Название: Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor
Перевод названия: Представляя себе космос: иллюстрированная история первых попыток СССР в освоении вселенной
ISBN: 9781783207428
Издательство: Intellect (UK)
Классификация:

Фотография и фотографы

Фотографии: коллекции

Плакатное искусство

Холодная война

ISBN-10: 1783207426
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 132
Вес: 0.63 кг.
Дата издания: 15.05.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 128 color plates
Размер: 173 x 239 x 24
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: A visual history of early soviet space endeavor
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Space is the ultimate canvas for the imagination, and in the 1950s and 60s, as part of the space race with the United States, the solar system was the blank page upon which the Soviet Union etched a narrative of exploration and conquest. In Picturing the Cosmos, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena, Iina Kohonen maps the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship during the Cold War.

Kohonen ably examines each image, elucidating how visual media helped to anchor otherwise abstract political and intellectual concepts of the future and modernization within the Soviet Union. The USSR mapped and named the cosmos, using new media to stake a claim to this new territory and incorporating it into the daily lives of its citizens. Soviet cosmonauts, meanwhile, were depicted as prototypes of the perfect Communist man, representing modernity, good taste, and the aesthetics of the everyday. Across five heavily illustrated chapters, Picturing the Cosmos navigates and critically examines these utopian narratives, highlighting the rhetorical tension between propaganda, censorship, art, and politics.

Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor, Kohonen Iina