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Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics presents an innovative look at the
Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences
in the 1920s. The book examines some of the lesser known
entanglements between architects, filmmakers and philosophers, on
the one hand, and experimental psychologists and physiologists on
the other. In Russia, famous avant-garde artists, such as El
Lissitzky, Vassily Kandinsky and Dziga Vertov, helped propagate a
movement referred to as "psychotechnics" that was emerging at the
time in Germany and the United States and eventually led to a
"psychotechnical boom." At the end of the story told in the book,
it becomes clear that this boom continues to the present day. By
analyzing concrete projects undertaken by Russian artists and
scientists in cooperation with one another, and by drawing on
as-yet-unpublished archival material, Avant-Garde and
Psychotechnics challenges the established notion of socialist
sciences. At the same time, it provides an entirely new picture of
what was thought to be modern art, thereby demonstrating that
artistic experimentation had much more than a mere metaphorical
meaning in Russian arts in the 1920s. In 2007 Avant-Garde and
Psychotechnics was acknowledged with an award for interdisciplinary
research by the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Society, Großbothen. In 2011 the
book received funding from the VolkswagenStiftung to be translated
into English and Russian (the Russian edition was published by NLO
books in 2019). The original German edition also received favorable
reviews in NZZ, NTM, Derive, Junge Welt and Sehepunkte.
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