The total art of Stalinism : avant-garde, aesthetic dictatorship, and beyond /

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Author / Creator:Groĭs, Boris
Uniform title:Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin. English
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992.
Description:126 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Socialist realism in art -- Soviet Union.
Art, Soviet
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Soviet Union
Art, Soviet.
Socialist realism in art.
Soviet Union.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1312462
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ISBN:0691055963 : $19.95
Notes:Translation of: Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126).
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Culture of the Stalin Era in Historical Perspective
  • Ch. 1. The Russian Avant-Garde: The Leap over Progress. White Humanity. Red Agitation
  • Ch. 2. The Stalinist Art of Living. Judgment Day for World Culture. The Typology of the Nonexistent. The Earthly Incarnation of the Demiurge
  • Ch. 3. Postutopian Art: From Myth to Mythology. The Lost Horizon. The Avant-Garde Artist as the "Little Man" Stalin's Best Pupils. Poet and Militiaman. A Cruel Talent. Chronicler of the Kremlin
  • Ch. 4. Designers of the Unconscious and Their Audience.