Машины зашумевшего времени: как советский монтаж стал методом неофициальной культуры

M. : Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2015.

Kukulin I.

Editor-in-chief: Е. П. Шумилова

This book examines shifts in the meaning of montage in different historical situations and in various artistic media, including literature, cinema, theater, and visual arts. Its scope includes literature and art of Soviet Russia (both official and unofficial), Germany, France, and the United States from 1910 to the 2010s. While this book does not provide a cohesive historical sketch, it delivers comparative studies on artists whose works problematize common understandings of the avant-garde in art history.

This study argues that different types of artistic montage correspond to different conceptions of history, dividing the history of montage aesthetics and techniques into three periods: (1) constructing, (2) post-utopian, and (3) historicizing or analytic montage. This book intends to demonstrate how the revolutionary montage aesthetics of the 1920s was reinterpreted and adapted for critical analysis of utopian consciousness in unofficial literature and art of the 1960s and 1970s. This change became possible because unofficial art, unlike Soviet socialist realism, was connected with the experiments of European and American radical modernism and postmodernism.      

Keywords: советское кино, russian cinema, Эйзенштейн, А.И.Солженицын, современная русская поэзия, Андрей Белый, искусство авангарда, русская поэзия ХХ века, монтаж, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian poetry of the early 20th century, montage, Sergei Eizenshtein, Soviet avant-guard, Pavel Ulitin, digital storytelling, Russian poetry of the 21th century, Павел Улитин, digital storytelling