Socialist Realist Painting During the Stalinist Era (1934-1941) : the High Art of Mass Art.

By:

Rusnock, K. Andrea

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (235 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780773419223
0773419225

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

709.4709043 759.7/09043

LOC classification:

ND688.5.S64 R87 2010

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Contents:

Introduction -- The inception of socialist realism : style, subject, and context -- Soviet art history and the interpretation of Russian nineteenth century realist painting -- Realism's respite : the affect of modern art on images of peasants -- The return to realism : 1922 to 1934 -- Socialist realism in action -- Socialist realism as art for the masses and art by the masses -- Conclusion.

Summary: This book argues that Socialist Realist paintings, typically seen by western art historians as examples of retrograde art and by scholars of Soviet history simply as propaganda, were a part of an extensive program of skillful artistic practice coupled with masterful propaganda. This book contains fourteen color photographs.

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This book argues that Socialist Realist paintings, typically seen by western art historians as examples of retrograde art and by scholars of Soviet history simply as propaganda, were a part of an extensive program of skillful artistic practice coupled with masterful propaganda. This book contains fourteen color photographs.