Totalitarian Art And Modernity

Author : Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen,Jacob Wamberg
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 8779345603

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Totalitarian Art and Modernity by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen,Jacob Wamberg Pdf

In spite of the steadily expanding concept of art in the Western world, art made in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes û notably Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and the communist East Bloc countries û is still to a surprising degree excluded from main stream art history and the exhibits of art museums. In contrast to earlier art made to promote princely or ecclesiastical power, this kind of visual culture seems to somehow not fulfill the category of 'true' art, instead being marginalised as propaganda for politically suspect regimes. Totalitarian Art and Modernity wants to modify this displacement, comparing totalitarian art with modernist and avant-garde movements; confronting their cultural and political embeddings; anti writing forth their common genealogies. Its eleven articles include topics as varied as: the concept of totalitarianism and totalitarian art, totalitarian exhibitions, monuments and architecture, forerunners of totalitarian art in romanticism and heroic realism, and diverse receptions of totalitarian art In democratic cultures.

Author : Monica Cioli,Maurizio Ricciardi,Pierangelo Schiera
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783593510309

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Traces of Modernism by Monica Cioli,Maurizio Ricciardi,Pierangelo Schiera Pdf

Traces of Modernism surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributors consider an extensive range of philosophical and artistic ideologies--from Bauhaus and Italian futurism to plans for totalitarian state-building--that bloomed in the wake of the World War One and the ensuing worldwide revolutions. These ideologies developed amid the uneasy backdrop of new kinds of international cooperation that were periodically punctuated by sharp bursts of fervid nationalism. At the center of each essay in Traces of Modernism stands the image of the machine, a metaphor for technological innovation and new systems of order that stood unfortunately ready for corruption by forces of authoritarianism.

Author : Igor Golomshtok
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822005245303

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Totalitarian Art in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and the People's Republic of China by Igor Golomshtok Pdf

In this study of the art of Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, the author describes the way the avant-garde and modernistic movements of the early 20th century, which sought to create new artistic forms of mass appeal, were quickly expropriated by dictatorial regimes.

Author : Mark Epstein,Fulvio Orsitto
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443879545

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TOTalitarian ARTs by Mark Epstein,Fulvio Orsitto Pdf

This collection represents a tool to broaden and deepen our geographical, institutional, and historical understanding of the term totalitarianism. Is totalitarianism only found in ‘other’ societies? How come, then, it emerged historically in ‘ours’ first? How come it developed in so many countries either in Western Europe (Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Spain) or under implicit Western forms of coercion (Latin America)? How do relations between individual(s), mass and the visual arts relate to totalitarian trends? These are among the questions this book asks about totalitarianism. The volume does not impose a ‘one size fits all’ interpretation, but opens new spaces for debate on the connection between the visual arts and mass-culture in totalitarian societies. From the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, from Western Europe to Latin America, from the fascism of the early 20th century to contemporary forms of totalitarian control, and from cinema to architecture, the chapters included in TotArt bring expertise, historical sensibility and political awareness to bear on this varied range of phenomena. This collection offers international contributions on visual, performing and plastic arts. The chapters range from examination of comics to study of YouTube videos and American newsreels, from Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Uruguayan cinemas to more contemporary American films and TV series, from painters and sculptors to the study of urban spaces.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801461453

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The Total Work of Art in European Modernism by David Roberts Pdf

In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. The total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was a particularly German dream, which made Wagner and Nietzsche the other center of aesthetic modernism alongside Baudelaire and Mallarmé. The history and theory of the total work of art pose a whole series of questions not only to aesthetic modernism and its utopias but also to the whole epoch from the French Revolution to the totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century. The total work of art indicates the need to revisit key assumptions of modernism, such as the foregrounding of the autonomy and separation of the arts at the expense of the countertendencies to the reunion of the arts, and cuts across the neat equation of avant-gardism with progress and deconstructs the familiar left-right divide between revolution and reaction, the modern and the antimodern. Situated at the interface between art, religion, and politics, the total work of art invites us to rethink the relationship between art and religion and art and politics in European modernism. In a major departure from the existing literature David Roberts argues for twin lineages of the total work, a French revolutionary and a German aesthetic, which interrelate across the whole epoch of European modernism, culminating in the aesthetic and political radicalism of the avant-garde movements in response to the crisis of autonomous art and the accelerating political crisis of European societies from the 1890s forward.

Author : Francesca Billiani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788317597

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Fascist Modernism in Italy by Francesca Billiani Pdf

Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a 'new man/woman' as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. As they did so these regimes uniformly adopted what we would call a modernist aesthetic – huge-scale experiments in modernism were funded and supported by fascist and totalitarian dictators. Famous examples include Mussolini's New Rome at EUR, or the Stalinist apartment blocks built in urban Russia. Focusing largely on Mussolini's Italy, Francesca Billiani argues that modernity was intertwined irrecoverably with fascism – that too often modernist buildings, art and writings are seen as a purely cultural output, when in fact the principles of modernist aesthetics constitute and are constituted by the principles of fascism. The obsession with the creation of the 'new man' in art and in reality shows this synergy at work. This book is a key contribution to the field of twentieth century history – particularly in the study of fascism, while also appealing to students of art history and philosophy.

Author : Igor Golomstock
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1590206703

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Totalitarian Art by Igor Golomstock Pdf

In the Soviet Union, and later in Maoist China, theories of mass artistic appeal were used to promote the Revolution both at home and abroad. In Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy they asserted the putative grandeur of the epoch. All too often, art that served the Revolution became "total realism," and always it became a slave to the state and the cult of personality, and ultimately one more weapon in the arsenal of oppression. Igor Golomstock gives a detailed appraisal of the forms that define totalitarian art and illustrates his text with more than two hundred examples of its paintings, posters, sculpture, and architecture, and includes a powerful comparative visual essay which demonstrates the eerie similarity of the official art of these very different regimes.

Author : Russell A. Berman
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299120848

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Modern Culture and Critical Theory by Russell A. Berman Pdf

Are the arguments of the Frankfurt School still relevant? Modern Culture and Critical Theory investigates this question in the context of important issues in contemporary cultural politics: neoconservatism and new social movements, discontents with modernity and debates on postmodernism, the political hegemony of Ronald Reagan, and the cultural hegemony of structuralism and poststructuralism. Russell Berman thoughtfully explores the theories of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Foucault and their relevance to both historical and contemporary issues in literature, politics, and the arts.

Author : Pamela M. Potter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520957961

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Art of Suppression by Pamela M. Potter Pdf

One thinks of the arts in Nazi Germany as struggling in an oppressive system, yet evidence has repeatedly shown that conditions were far more favourable than we assume. Potter conducts a historiography of Nazi arts, examining writings from the last seven decades to demonstrate how historical, moral, and intellectual conditions have sustained a distorted characterization of cultural life in the Third Reich. Showing how past research has revealed the decentralized nature of Nazi arts policies, Potter argues that the insulation of academic disciplines allowed outdated presumptions about Nazi micromanagement of the arts to persist.

Author : Richard Huelsenbeck
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520073703

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Memoirs of a Dada Drummer by Richard Huelsenbeck Pdf

Huelsenbeck’s memoirs bring to life the concerns—intellectual, artistic, and political—of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document the controversies within the movement and in response to it.

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844677023

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Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek Pdf

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Author : Carl Joachim Friedrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Totalitarianism
ISBN : UOM:39015056963062

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Totalitarianism by Carl Joachim Friedrich Pdf

Author : Dr Jacob Wamberg,Dr Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472411723

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Art, Technology and Nature by Dr Jacob Wamberg,Dr Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam Pdf

Are art and technology coming into a closer relationship with nature? Through a selection of innovative readings by international scholars, this book argues that since 1900 we have experienced a renewed negotiation of the convergent triangle of art, technology and nature, analysing its shifting constellations in post-medieval times. Through this negotiation, art becomes truly complementary to technology in understanding nature’s agencies and may gain an important role in adjusting technology’s present utilitarian hegemony.

Author : Boris Groys
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781844678099

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The Total Art of Stalinism by Boris Groys Pdf

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’ goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.

Author : Boris Groys
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781784783488

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In the Flow by Boris Groys Pdf

In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely things among other things. This meant an attack on the techniques of realism, and the traditional mission of the museum, both designed shield a small class of objects from the entropic fate awaiting everything else-and the development of an approach that Boris Groys calls "direct realism": an art that would not produce objects, but practices that could enter the flow of time to live and die like the rest of us. But for more than a century now, every advance in this direction has been quickly followed by new means of preserving art's distinction. In this major new work, Groys, one of the world's leading art theorists, charts the paradoxes produced by this tension, which continues to structure the production and reception of new art. The internet, the latest medium through which artists have attempted to disavow this special status, inverts the most notorious consequence of early modernist developments. If the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura, digital production generates aura without objects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present.