The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic

1890-1934

Bibliographic Data

ID19922080
AuthorsIrina Gutkin (corresponding author)
Year1999
Publication date1999-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNorthwestern University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/j.ctv47w91j
OpenAlexW2327101169
ISBN9780810165823
LanguageEN
Citations received20

In this text, Irina Gutkin brings together work on the subject of Soviet aesthetic ideology to argue that socialist realism encompassed a philosophical world view that marked thinking in the Soviet Union on all levels, political, social, and linguistic. Using a wealth of diverse cultural material, the book traces the emergence of central operative in socialist realist theory and praxis from Symbolism to pre- and post- revolutionary Futurism, through the 1920s and 1930s. Rich in both cultural and philosophical analysis, this book should appeal to Russian scholars and historians, as well as the general reader

Aesthetics · Art · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms

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