Il'f and Petrov on-line exhibit

[Anne O'Brien Fisher]

Greetings,

I am pleased to anounce that the exhibit "Soviet Writers, American Images: 
Il'f and Petrov Tour the United States, 1935-1936" which ran at the 
University of Michigan in February 2005, as well as the 
texts of the accompanying lectures, can now be viewed on-line at

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic/Ilf_Petrov/

Thank you,

Anne Fisher


(the following is an excerpt from the original press release for the 
curious)
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The University of Michigan campus is hosting the exhibit "Soviet Writers,
American Images: Il'f and Petrov Tour the United States, 1935-1936" and a
series of lectures devoted to Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov's American
travel narratives. The popular Soviet writers were sent as correspondents
for Pravda to tour America and report to the Soviet public on their
impressions. They obtained a guide, bought a Ford, and drove from New York
to California and back, Il'f snapping hundreds of amateur photographs
along the way. The result was "Amerikanskie fotografii" ("American
Photographs"), an extended photo-essay published in 1936, which the
co-authors reworked and expanded in 1937 into a book without photographs,
Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (One-Story America). The project "Soviet Writers,
American Images: Il'f and Petrov Tour the United States, 1935-1936" brings
together Vadim Besprozvanny and Anne Fisher, Doctor Erika Wolf, and Il'ia
Il'f's daughter, Aleksandra Il'f, to present their work on Il'f and
Petrov's two American travelogues. The exhibit and lectures explore the
interplay of the co-authors' verbal and visual images of America and
invite audiences to reflect on the America of 2005 by presenting the
America of 1935 as Il'f and Petrov saw it.

Special thanks to Elena Godina, the project designer.

University of Michigan support has come from the Institute for the
Humanities, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the
International Institute, and the Center for Russian and East European
Studies. For more information call (734) 883-4172 or email aof at umich.edu.
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"Time and again, when reading even the greatest Russian writers, like 
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, I find myself exclaiming, 'My God, this man is 
bonkers!'"

- W. H. Auden, in his foreword to a translation of Konstantin 
Leont'ev's selected works.

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Anne Fisher
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan Slavic Department
Sylvia "Duffy" Engle Graduate Student Fellow, University of Michigan
Institute for the Humanities
work tel: 734-936-1865
aof at umich.edu

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