Laboratory of Dreams
Subtitle: The Russian Avant-Garde and Cultural Experiment
Contributors: John E. Bowlt (Editor); Olga Matich (Editor)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780804736527
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Russian & Former Soviet Union; European; Art & Art Instruction; Russian; Literary Criticism; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
First sentence: In a letter from the middle 1880s to the philosopher Nikolai Fedorov, Vladimir Solov'ev asked his "dear teacher" whether his idea of physically resurrecting the dead in acts blessed by God but performed by men should be a goal "in itself."