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

• Autore: Petrov Petre
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.94709/041
• Soggetto topico: Socialist realism; Modernism (Aesthetics) - Soviet Union; Socialist realism in art - Soviet Union; Modernism (Art) - Soviet Union
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-300) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Automatic for the masses
• ISBN: 1-4426-1693-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460139303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II