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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812164403321

Autore

Petrov Petre

Titolo

Automatic for the masses : the death of the author and the birth of Socialist realism / / Petre M. Petrov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-1694-6

1-4426-1693-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

700.94709/041

Soggetti

Socialist realism

Modernism (Aesthetics) - Soviet Union

Socialist realism in art - Soviet Union

Modernism (Art) - Soviet Union

Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The imperative of form -- The imperative of content -- Knowledge become practice -- The organization of things -- The organization of minds -- The anonymous centre of style -- The unbearable light of being -- Ideology as authentication -- The blind, the seeing, and the shiny -- Life happens.

Sommario/riassunto

In Automatic for the Masses, Petre M. Petrov offers a novel, theoretically informed account of the transition from modernism to Socialist Realism, tracing their connections through Modernist notions of agency and authorship.