Model Soviet Time Machines

Clark Fellow Juliet Koss presents, "Model Soviet Time Machines."

This talk addresses a range of representations of architectural construction and urban development in Moscow in the 1930s on the part of the artists Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova and the writers Viktor Shklovsky and Sergei Tret'iakov. From a planned "planetarium in reverse" offering a time machine for architectural tourism to an album showcasing the city's development in diagrams, foldouts, and varied photographic styles - plus a dozen issues of the journal USSR in Construction along the way - new Soviet buildings and projects were often showcased by means of a dizzying conflation of temporal frameworks. In each case, photography and design not only helped document and promote the process of constructing the nation but also offered visual parallels for the temporal confusion of Soviet urban experience.

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Time:

5:30pm-6:30pm Tue, Mar 15, 2016

Venue:

Clark Art Institute

225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

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