Picturing the Cosmos : A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- "The Current Generation of Soviet People Will Live Under Communism" -- Secrecy and Spotlight -- Material Used in the Book -- The Structure of the Book -- 2: A Slash Across the Heavens -- Racing into Space -- To Conquer - or to Explore? -- The System of Secrecy -- Scouts of the Heavenly Depths -- To the Moon and Around -- A Map of the Moon -- 3: Travelers in the Void -- The Gaze of Apollo -- Cosmic Landscapes -- Alexei Leonov, an Artist on a Journey -- Horror Vacui: On Infinity and Congestion -- Photograph Versus Painting -- 4: Story of the Heroic Conquest of Space -- Cosmonauts and the Regime of Secrecy -- Visual Narratives of Space Heroes -- The Hero's Homecoming -- The Tomb -- The Jubilant Crowd -- A Call from the Secretary General -- 5: A Completely Ordinary Hero -- Devil in the Detail? -- The Hero as an Everyman -- 6: The Housebroken Hero -- Mothers and Sons -- A Modern Space Heroine - and a Cosmic Love Story -- Fathers and Husbands -- Modern Homes for Ideal Citizens -- 7: The Tormented Hero -- Hero on the Threshold -- Man - Machine -- The Death of the Hero -- 8: Conclusions -- The Tamed Infinity -- Cosmonauts as Examples of the Good Life -- Imagery as a Modern Space Narrative -- The Last Journeying Men -- The Descended Hero -- Endnotes -- Sources and Literature -- List of Figures -- Copyright -- Back Cover.

Space is the ultimate canvas for the imagination. In the 1950s and '60s, as part of the space race with the United States, the solar system was the blank page upon which the Soviet Union etched a narrative of conquest and exploration. In Picturing the Cosmos, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of rarely seen photographs and other visual phenomena, Iina Kohonen maps the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship during the Cold War.

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