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02587aam a2200373 i 4500 001 6530117626B811E994CCD44997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190202010039 008 170317s2017 enkaf b 000 0 eng c 020 $a 1783207426 020 $a 9781783207428 035 $a (OCoLC)977133048 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d QGK $d CDX $d IQU $d WAU $d IGA $d PAU $d YDX $d A7U $d PAU $d OCLCF $d L2U $d WLU $d OCLCQ $d MND $d UKMGB $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fin 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- 050 4 $a TL789.8 S65 K64 2017 100 1 $a Kohonen, Iina, $e author. 245 10 $a Picturing the cosmos : $b a visual history of early Soviet space endeavor / $c Iina Kohonen ; translation Albion Butters and Tiina HyytiaÌinen. 264 1 $a Bristol, UK ; $b Intellect, $c [2017] 300 $a 205 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-199). 520 8 $a Space is the ultimate canvas for the imagination, and in the 1950s and '60s, as part of the space race with the United States, the solar system was the blank page upon which the Soviet Union etched a narrative of exploration and conquest. In Picturing the Cosmos, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena, Iina Kohonen maps the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship during the Cold War. Kohonen ably examines each image, elucidating how visual media helped to anchor otherwise abstract political and intellectual concepts of the future and modernization within the Soviet Union. The USSR mapped and named the cosmos, using new media to stake a claim to this new territory and incorporating it into the daily lives of its citizens. Soviet cosmonauts, meanwhile, were depicted as prototypes of the perfect Communist man, representing modernity, good taste, and the aesthetics of the everyday. Across five heavily illustrated chapters, Picturing the Cosmos navigates and critically examines these utopian narratives, highlighting the rhetorical tension between propaganda, censorship, art, and politics. 500 $a Translated from the Finnish. 650 0 $a Astronautics $z Soviet Union. 650 0 $a Propaganda, Soviet. 650 0 $a Propaganda in art. 650 0 $a Imagery (Psychology) in art. 700 1 $a Butters, Albion M., $e translator. 700 1 $a HyytiaÌinen, Tiina, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190402014341.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6530117626B811E994CCD44997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search