Matthew C. Hunter and Francesco Lucchini, eds. The Clever Object. Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 2013. 218 pp.

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Previous articleNext article No AccessThe CI ReviewMatthew C. Hunter and Francesco Lucchini, eds. The Clever Object. Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, 2013. 218 pp.Robert BirdRobert Bird Search for more articles by this author Robert Bird is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. His primary area of interest is the aesthetic practice and theory of Russian/Soviet modernism. He has published two books on the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky—Andrei Rublev (2004) and Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema (2008)—as well as numerous essays on the art and theory of the moving image, mostly in Russia, from the 1920s to the present day. He is presently at work on a book manuscript “Soul Machine: How Soviet Film Modeled Socialism,” which analyzes the diverse uses of scale models in Soviet film of the 1930s and argues that socialist realism was a modeling aesthetic. Concurrently, he is collaborating on Revolution Every Day, an exhibition that will juxtapose Soviet graphic art of the 1920s and 1930s with work on film by Dziga Vertov, Olga Chernysheva, and Cauleen Smith, which opened at the Smart Museum in September 2017. His next project, “Revolutionology,” will examine the phenomenon of intellectual revolution across a variety of media, spaces, and historical moments, from 1848 to the present day.PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 44, Number 3Spring 2018 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/696929 Views: 127Total views on this site © 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.