{"id":93980,"date":"2016-02-01T09:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=93980"},"modified":"2016-02-01T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:27:09","slug":"the-soviet-man-of-the-future-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/the-soviet-man-of-the-future-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soviet Man of the Future, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_93982\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/still-life-lightbulb.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93982\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93982\" class=\"wp-image-93982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/still-life-lightbulb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/still-life-lightbulb.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/still-life-lightbulb-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/still-life-lightbulb-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/still-life-lightbulb-1024x815.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgy Zimin, <i>Still Life with Light Bulb<\/i>, 1928\u20131930. Image via <em>NYRB<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Philip Larkin\u2019s poems and letters present him as misanthropic, hard-hearted, and above all miserable\u2014but he moonlighted as a photographer, and his work in the medium shows a dramatically different side of him. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/philip-larkins-life-behind-the-camera\" target=\"_blank\">In their sociability, tenderness, and sweep, the photographs complicate the caricature of Larkin as England\u2019s laureate of despair<\/a>, squeezing out lines between shifts as a university librarian \u2026 Rather than a poet committed to monkish isolation and routine, Larkin the photographer appears as an eager traveller through Britain and Ireland, with [Monica] Jones often in tow \u2026 Larkin kept these travels, and the photographs they inspired, a secret from pen pals like Kingsley Amis, for whom he reserved obscenity-filled reports of his own bitterness and alienation\u2014his wide-eyed curiosity replaced by an ironic sneer.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum, \u201cThe Power of Pictures,\u201d looks at the revolutionary intent of early Soviet photography and film: \u201cRussia\u2019s new political masters wanted to create a new society and a \u2018new Soviet man\u2019 \u2026 Many of the best-known avant-garde artists embraced this task with enthusiasm: some felt as though their art was the engine driving history. Artists like El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Stepanova, Goncharova, Malevich, Mayakovsky, and Tatlin\u2014to varying degrees influenced by Cubism, Futurism, and other western European movements, as well as by Russian folk traditions\u2014had been making work that in different ways sought to redefine the very notion of art \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/01\/28\/revolution-from-another-angle-early-soviet-photography-film\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photography was the perfect medium for promoting the new state order. Its use in newspapers, magazines, posters, journals, and books as something other than portraiture was a new phenomenon<\/a>. It was by definition \u2018modern\u2019 and \u2018forward-looking\u2019\u2014a non-elitist medium for the age of mechanical reproduction.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve all tired of the manic-pixie dream girl, that brazen testament to the narrowness of the male imagination. But John Green, in his young-adult novels, gives the stereotype considerably more depth: \u201cIn Green\u2019s novels, <a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/essay\/john-green-and-his-manic-pixie-dream-girls\" target=\"_blank\">there is considerable tension between the potent appeal of his manic pixie characters, the excitement and fun they bring into the narrators\u2019 lives, and the messages these characters impart about their own lives and identities<\/a>. It is only through celebrating the quirky charisma of manic pixie dream girls and fully exploring their attraction that he is able to show their accompanying problems \u2026 In his most complex work, he deconstructs the type, showing readers the pitfalls of defining others in narrowed ways \u2026 \u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Afronauts, <\/em>the Ghanaian director Frances Bodomo\u2019s new film, tells the little-known story of the Zambian space program, which mounted an ambitious attempt to send twelve astronauts to the moon in the sixties. \u201cZambia\u2019s landscape isn\u2019t really arid desert; it\u2019s not really desolate,\u201d Bodomo says. \u201cAnd this is where the sci-fi comes into it, because you can take liberties and telling an alternative history comes into to it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2016\/01\/the-afronauts\" target=\"_blank\">You know it\u2019s wonderful that they\u2019re already on this landscape that already feels like the moon, that already feels like they\u2019re already where they\u2019re going<\/a>. That feels like the message at the end of the film, that they\u2019re already where they always wanted to be. The loneliness and the pain and the self-negation that exists here is what it\u2019s going to be up there. The trials and tribulations here are going to be up there. Visually, they\u2019re already in their dream space.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Concrete, simplicity, utopia\u2014let\u2019s hear it for brutalism, people. Put your hands together for brutalism. 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