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By Svetlana Boym

Svetlana Boym's Architecture of the Off-Modern is an ingenious journey throughout the background and afterlife of Vladimir Tatlin's mythical yet unbuilt Monument to the 3rd overseas of 1920. Boym strains the vicissitudes of Tatlin's tower, from its reception within the Twenties to its privileged remember in "the reservoir of unofficial utopian desires" of the Soviet period. Boym bargains another background of modernism, postulating the "architecture of experience" as a poetic version for "third-route" puzzling over expertise, background, and aesthetic tradition.

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