{"product_id":"avant-garde-as-method-anna-bokov-9783038604334","title":"Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930","description":"\u003cb\u003eA revised edition of Anna Bokov's study of the Vkhutemas school in the Soviet Union.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With her groundbreaking book \u003ci\u003eAvant-Garde as Method\u003c\/i\u003e, architect and historian Anna Bokov offered the first scholarly exploration of art and technology education in the Soviet Union. This new, revised, and expanded edition reflects the latest findings of Bokov's ongoing research on the Higher Art and Technical Studios in Moscow, commonly known as Vkhutemas, and its pedagogical program. It features rich additional visual material that has been discovered in various archives since the publication of the first edition in 2020. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Vkhutemas was the first school to implement mass art and technology education, which was seen as essential to the Soviet Union's dominant modernist paradigm. It combined longstanding academic ideas with more nascent industrial-era practices to initiate a new type of pedagogy that took an explorative approach and drew its strength from the continuous feedback and exchange between students and educators. Elaborating on the ways the Vkhutemas curriculum challenged established canons of academic tradition by replacing it with open-ended inquiry, Bokov shows how this pedagogy came to be articulated in architectural and urban projects within the school's advanced studios.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Bokov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 303860433X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783038604334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Park Publishing (WI)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Anna Bokov","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46927949299967,"sku":"9783038604334","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38433f80-533a-4cee-bfd4-e3328f7ca73a.jpg?v=1749373470","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/avant-garde-as-method-anna-bokov-9783038604334","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}