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Building a new New World - Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture (Paperback)
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Building a new New World - Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture (Paperback)
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An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United
States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to
the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as
both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in
shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American
Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen
traces the powerful concept of "Amerikanizm" and its impact on
Russia's built environment from early czarist interest in
Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World's Fairs of the
19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories
built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century.
Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El
Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing
artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the
mid-century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of
strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the
architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our
understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.
Distributed for the Canadian Centre for Architecture
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