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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Description: I am joined for my interview with Edward Tyerman by Ed Pulford, another host on our channel. Together, we discuss Edwardâs new book, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture (Columbia University Press, 2021). Internationalist Aesthetics examines how knowledge of China is produced in the early Soviet period through the aesthetic idiom of internationalism. Tyerman shows how artist intellectuals, especially Sergei Tretyakov, the bookâs protagonist, make China affectively sensible for Russian audiences. Each chapter takes on a separate medium: travelogue, stage, film, and âbio-narrative,â to think through how Soviet aesthetes negotiate old and new forms to demystify China, a nation tha...