Picturing the Cosmos

A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor

Iina Kohonen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

132 Seiten

2017
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78320-742-8 (ISBN)

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Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena narrating the Soviet Union’s 1957 victory in the ‘Race for Space’, the author illustrates the media’s role in cementing the way for Communism whilst retaining top-secret information. Each photo is examined as a deliberate, functioning part of a specific political, ideological and historical situation that helped to anchor the otherwise abstract political and intellectual concepts of the future and modernization.

Iina Kohonen is a researcher specializing in space-related visual propaganda and photojournalism in the Soviet Union.

Introduction

A Slash Across the Heavens

Travelers in the Void

Story of the Heroic Conquest of Space

A Completely Ordinary Hero

The Housebroken Hero

The Tormented Hero

Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	27.07.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
ISBN-10	1-78320-742-6 / 1783207426
ISBN-13	978-1-78320-742-8 / 9781783207428
Zustand	Neuware