Voinstvuiushchii modernizm - Khazerli Ouen

The purpose of this book is to protect modernism from its defenders. In his own way, interpreting modern design, cinema, pop culture and especially architecture, the author seeks to save the revolutionary component of modernism from its absorption by the "heritage industry" and the aesthetics of premium housing. "Militant Modernism" contains new interpretations of familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, but is more devoted to the lesser-known modernists of the 20th century, engaged in ordinary architecture. The author touches on the themes of industrial and brutalist aesthetics in Britain, Russian constructivism in architecture, sexpol and ideas of Wilhelm Reich in film and design, the effect of the removal of Brecht and Hans Eisler in music and on the screen with the sole purpose - to perform For the modernism of everyday life with its issues of socialism, sexual politics and technology.The Russian edition is specially supplemented by the author of the afterword and the reference pointer of the militant modernist.