1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910476782803321

Autore

Seifrid Thomas

Titolo

A companion to Andrei Platonov's The foundation pit / / Thomas Seifrid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2009]

©2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history

Disciplina

891.7342

Soggetti

Politics and literature - Soviet Union - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CHAPTER ONE. Platonov's Life -- CHAPTER TWO. Intellectual Influences on Platonov -- CHAPTER THREE. The Literary Context of The Foundation Pit -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Political Context of The Foundation Pit -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Foundation Pit Itself -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of the work's key themes, it discusses their place within Platonov's oeuvre as a whole, his troubled relations with literary officialdom, the work's ideological and political background, and key critical responses since the work's first publication in the West in 1973.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794351203321

Titolo

Art and activism in the age of systemic crisis : aesthetic resilience / / edited by Eliza Steinbock, Bram Ieven, and Marijke de Valck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2021

ISBN

9780429269189

0-429-26918-8

1-000-19543-0

0-367-21984-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge research in art and politics

Disciplina

700.103

Soggetti

Arts - Political aspects

Art and social action

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Resilience : searching for new weapons while fleeing -- Global conjunctions of aesthetic resilience -- Artistic practices of embodied resilience.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s. The volume shows the diverse ways in which artists have sought to confront systemic crises around the globe, searching for new and enduring forms of building communities and reimagining the political horizon. The authors engage in a dialogue with these artistic efforts and their histories - in particular the earlier artistic activism that was developed during the civil rights era in the 1960s and 70s - providing valuable historical insight and new conceptual reflection on the future of aesthetic resilience. This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, history of art, film and literary studies, protest movements, and social movements"--