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Petrov Petre |
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Automatic for the masses : the death of the author and the birth of Socialist realism / / Petre M. Petrov |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (325 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Socialist realism |
Modernism (Aesthetics) - Soviet Union |
Socialist realism in art - Soviet Union |
Modernism (Art) - Soviet Union |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-300) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One -- Chapter 1. The Imperative of Form -- Chapter 2. The Imperative of Content -- Chapter 3. Knowledge Become Practice -- Chapter 4. The Organization of Things -- Chapter 5. The Organization of Minds -- Part Two -- Chapter 6. The Anonymous Centre of Style -- Chapter 7. The Unbearable Light of Being -- Chapter 8. Ideology as Authentication -- Chapter 9. The Blind, the Seeing, and the Shiny -- Chapter 10. Life Happens -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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At the end of the 1920s, the Modernist and avant-garde artistic programmes of the early Soviet Union were swept away by the rise of Stalinism and the dictates of Socialist Realism. Did this aesthetic transition also constitute a conceptual break, or were there unseen continuities between these two movements? In Automatic for the Masses, Petre M. Petrov offers a novel, theoretically informed account of that transition, tracing those connections through Modernist notions of agency and authorship.Reading the statements and manifestos of the Formalists, Constructivists, and other Soviet avant-garde artists, |
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Petrov argues that Socialist Realism perpetuated in a new form the Modernist "death of the author." In interpreting this symbolic demise, he shows how the official culture of the 1930s can be seen as a perverted realization of modernism's unrealizable project. An insightful and challenging interpretation of the era, Automatic for the Masses will be required reading for those interested in understanding early Soviet culture. |
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