Picturing the Cosmos - A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor

Space is the ultimate canvas for the imagination. 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 conquest and exploration. 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.

About the author

Lina Kohonen has a Doctoral degree from Aalto University’s School of Art, Design and Architecture (photography) and a Masters Degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Helsinki, specializing in space-related visual propaganda and photojournalism in the Soviet Union.

Product details

• Authors: Iina Kohonen
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2017
• EAN: 9781783207428
• ISBN: 978-1-78320-742-8
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Photography & photographs, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical, ART / Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy, poster art, Photographs: collections, The Cold War, Photography and photographs, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, ART / Russian & Soviet