Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics - Science, Art and Technology in the Early Soviet Union

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Margarete Vohringer, Margarete Vöhringer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032532677
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253267-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Eastern Europe, European History, HISTORY / General, SCIENCE / History, ART / History / General, History of Science, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Russia / General