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Author : Irina Gutkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : 0810165821
Author : Irina Gutkin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 081011545X
The past fifteen years have seen an important shift in the way scholars look at socialist realism. Where it was seen as a straitjacket imposed by the Stalinist regime, it is now understood to be an aesthetic movement in its own right, one whose internal logic had to be understood if it was to be criticized. International specialists remain divided, however, over the provenance of Soviet aesthetic ideology, particularly over the role of the avant-garde in its emergence. In The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, Irina Gutkin brings together the best work written on the subject to argue that socialist realism encompassed a philosophical worldview that marked thinking in the USSR on all levels: political, social, and linguistic. Using a wealth of diverse cultural material, Gutkin traces the emergence of the central tenants of socialist realist theory from Symbolism and Futurism through the 1920s and 1930s.
Author : Agnieszka Chmielewska,Irena Kossowska,Marcin Lachowski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000655612
This volume offers a comprehensive perspective on the relationship between the art scene and agencies of the state in countries of the region, throughout four consecutive yet highly diverse historical periods: from the period of state integration after World War I, through the communist era post 1945 and the time of political transformation after 1989, to the present-day globalisation (including counter-reactions to westernisation and cultural homogenisation). With twenty-three theoretically and/or empirically oriented articles by authors from sixteen countries (East Central Europe and beyond, including the United States and Australia), the book discusses interconnections between state policies and artistic institutions, trends and the art market from diverse research perspectives. The contributors explore subjects such as the impact of war on the formation of national identities, the role of artists in image-building for the new national states emerging after 1918, the impact of political systems on artists’ attitudes, the discourses of art history, museum studies, monument conservation and exhibition practices. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural politics, cultural history, and East Central European studies and history.
Author : Evgeny Dobrenko,Marina Balina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521875356
An overview of the main literary schools, authors and works in modern Russia and the Soviet Union.
Author : Christine I. Ho
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520309623
Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People’s Republic of China (1949–1965) in order to discover how artists created a national form of socialist realism. Tracing the development of seminal works by the major painters Xu Beihong, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Li Xiongcai, Dong Xiwen, and Fu Baoshi, author Christine I. Ho reconstructs how artists grappled with the representational politics of a nascent socialist art. The divergent approaches, styles, and genres presented in this study reveal an art world that is both heterogeneous and cosmopolitan. Through a history of artistic practices in pursuit of Maoist cultural ambitions—to forge new registers of experience, new structures of feeling, and new aesthetic communities—this original book argues that socialist Chinese art presents a critical, alternative vision for global modernism.
Author : Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300122800
Bringing together the Soviet historical experience and Stalin-era art in novels, films, poems, songs, painting, photography, architecture and advertising, Dobrenko examines Stalinism's representational strategies and demonstrates how real socialism was begotten of Socialist Realism.
Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134569069
The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and émigré writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature. With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike.
Author : Anne Koch,Katharina Wilkens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350066731
Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physical processes of religious life, tradition, practice, and belief. It reflects the cultural turn within the study of religion and puts theory to the fore, moving beyond traditional theological, philosophical, and ethnographic understandings of the aesthetics of religion. Editors Anne Koch and Katharina Wilkens bring together research in cultural studies, cognitive studies, material religion, religion and the arts, and epistemology. Questions of identity, gender, ethnicity, and postcolonialism are discussed throughout. Key topics include materiality, embodiment, performance, popular/vernacular art and space to move beyond a sensory understanding of aesthetics. Emerging areas of research are covered, including secular aesthetics and the aesthetic of spirits. This is an important contribution to theory and method in the study of religion, and is grounded in research that has been taking place in Europe over the past 20 years. Case studies are drawn from around the world with contributions from scholars based in Europe, the USA, and Australia. The book is illustrated with over 40 color images and features a foreword from Birgit Meyer.
Author : Pang Laikwan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784785222
Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were “blue ants under the red flag,” dressing identically and even moving in concert like robots. When the Cultural Revolution officially began, this uniformity seemed to extend to the mind. From the outside, China had become a monotonous world, a place of endless repetition and imitation, but a closer look reveals a range of cultural experiences, which also provided individuals with an obscure sense of freedom. In The Art of Cloning, Pang Laikwan examines this period in Chinese history when ordinary citizens read widely, traveled extensively through the country, and engaged in a range of cultural and artistic activities. The freedom they experienced, argues Pang, differs from the freedom, under Western capitalism, to express individuality through a range of consumer products. But it was far from boring and was possessed of its own kind of diversity.
Author : Joan Titus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199315154
In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers. With his first score for the silent film New Babylon (1928-29) and the many sound scores that followed, he was situated to observe and participate in the changing politics of the film industry and negotiate the role of the film composer. In The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich, author Joan Titus examines the relationship between musical narration, audience, filmmaker, and composer in six of Shostakovich's early film scores, from 1928 through 1936. Titus engages with the construct of Soviet intelligibility, the filmmaking and scoring processes, and the cultural politics of scoring Soviet film music, asking how listeners hear and see Shostakovich. The discussions of the scores are enriched by the composer's own writing on film music, along with archival materials and recently discovered musical manuscripts that illuminate the collaborative processes of the film teams, studios, and composer. The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich commingles film/media studies, musicology, and Russian studies , and is sure to be of interest to a wide audience including those in music studies, film/media scholars, and Slavicists.
Author : Eike-Christian Heine
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783643907004
On construction sites the world is altered in a very solid, material way. This is not the whole story, of course: if someone builds a house, a railroad or any other thing, there is more under construction that the mere object itself. With spade and excavator contemporary imaginations, visions and historical concepts are equally reshaped or renewed. Interventions into the physical landscape are always accompanied by interventions into the imaginary landscape. Here, eleven authors from seven European countries examine the discursive alongside the performative construction of reality when things are being built.
Author : Stefan Arvidsson,Jakub Beneš,Anja Kirsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351536042
This volume offers new perspectives on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism over the past two centuries. It brings together scholarship from various disciplines addressing diverse national contexts, including Britain, China, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. Taken together, the contributions highlight the aesthetic, narrative, and religious dimensions of socialism as it has developed through three broad phases in the modern era: early nineteenth-century beginnings, mass-based political organizations, and the attainment of state power in the twentieth century and beyond. Socialism did not attract millions of people primarily because of logical argument and empirical evidence, important though those were. Rather, it told the most compelling story about the past, present, and future. Refocusing attention on socialism's imaginative dimensions, this volume aims to revive scholarly interest in one of the modern world1s most important political orientations.
Author : Rolf Hellebust
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801488923
A special material : the meaning of metal imagery -- Forging the future : proletarian poetry and revolutionary transformation -- Anvil to blast furnace : metal imagery in socialist realism -- The Metaphor realized : fellow travelers and thereafter -- The Beginning and end of history : metallization and myth.
Author : Claire McCallum
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501757730
Author : Jonathan Stone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780810871823
The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature contains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant genres...