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217: 38: 188:, which was to house an information centre, issuing news bulletins and manifestos via telegraph, radio and loudspeaker, and would complete a rotation once a day. At the top, there would be a hemisphere for radio equipment. There were also plans to install a gigantic open-air screen on the cylinder, and a further projector which would be able to cast messages across the clouds on any overcast day. 183:
structures. These structures would rotate at different rates. At the base of the structure was a cube which was designed as a venue for lectures, conferences and legislative meetings, and this would complete a rotation in the span of one year. Above the cube would be a smaller pyramid housing
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There are serious doubts about the tower’s structural practicality, had it ever been built—which it was not because of the gigantic amount of steel required, which was impossible to obtain in bankrupt post-revolutionary Russia, in the context of housing shortages and political turmoil.
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which spiraled up to 400 m (1,300 feet) in height, around which visitors would be transported with the aid of various mechanical devices. The main framework would contain four large suspended
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Tatlin's tower was critical to Soviet propaganda. Symbolically, the tower was said to represent the aspirations of its originating country and a challenge to the
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Hughes, L. (2010). "Art—Russia" in W. H. McNeill, J. H. Bentley, D. Christian, R. C. Croizier, J. R. McNeill, H. Roupp, & J. P. Zinsser (Eds.),
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tower was to be built from industrial materials: iron, glass and steel. In materials, shape and function, it was envisaged as a towering symbol of
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Photographs of Tatlin and his assistants constructing the first model for the monument to the Third International, Petrograd, 1920
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Art and Literature under the Bolsheviks: Volume One – The Crisis of Renewal Brandon Taylor
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Vladimir Tatlin and a model of his Monument to the Third International, Moscow, 1920.
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executive activities and completing a rotation once a month. Further up would be a
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is said to have called it a monument "made of steel, glass and revolution."
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Model of Tatlin's Tower in the courtyard of the Royal Academy, London.
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Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde (Pt 2 Tatlins Tower)
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Monument
Constructivism
St. Petersburg, Russia
Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Tatlin
Saint Petersburg
October Revolution
Communist International
Constructivist
modernity
Eiffel Tower
helix
geometric
cylinder
Eiffel Tower
Viktor Shklovsky

Moderna Museet
Tretyakov Gallery
Musée National d'Art Moderne
Centre Georges Pompidou
The Royal Academy of Arts
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Norwich
University of East Anglia
Ai Weiwei
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Shukhov Tower
Tower Bawher

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