10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOCIALIST REALISM»
Discover the use of
socialist realism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
socialist realism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Political Economy of
Socialist Realism
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 ...
Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko, 2007
2
Socialist Realism Without Shores
The contributors here argue that socialist realism has never been a monolithic art form.
Thomas Lahusen, Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko, 1997
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The Trial Begins ; And, On
Socialist Realism
Abram Tertz, one of the most important writers to emerge in the Soviet Union since World War II, came to prominence in 1959 when On Socialist Realism was published in the West.
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Socialist Realist Painting
Soviet Realism was the result. This book traces the style from its artistic and intellectual origins in 19th-century Russia to its decline at the end of the Soviet period. 184 color and 346 b&w illustrations.
Matthew Cullerne Bown, 1998
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David Bergelson: From Modernism to
Socialist Realism
With contributions from an international team of Bergelson experts, the volume offers a full-length biography, the first complete bibliography of Bergelsonâ__s work, translations of two of his most influential programmatic articles, and a ...
Joseph Sherman, Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2007
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Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to ...
Satire and the fantastic, vital literary genres in the 1920s, are often thought to have fallen victim to the official adoption of socialist realism. Eric Laursen contends that these subversive genres did not just vanish or move underground.
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Art under
Socialist Realism: Soviet painting, 1930-1950
This book will be of interest to all readers with an interest in the classical period of Soviet Socialist Realism.
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How life writes the book: real socialism and
socialist ...
How Life Writes the Book retraces Azhaev's path from a forced labor camp to the highest reaches of the Soviet literary bureaucracy and back again, illustrating the failure of the bold Soviet effort to integrate literature and life, utopia ...
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The Cultural Origins of the
Socialist Realist Aesthetic, ...
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 ...
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Art of the Soviets: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in ...
Socialist Realism is usually characterised as the aesthetic principle of Stalinism,
and its specific formulation, like its first works, did indeed emerge as weapons of
Soviet cultural policy at the height of his rule. But its roots go back much further, ...
Matthew Cullerne Bown, Brandon Taylor, 1993
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOCIALIST REALISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
socialist realism is used in the context of the following news items.
Picasso Who? This Tycoon Is Betting Half a Billion on Soviet Art
(Bloomberg) -- Andrey Filatov, a Russian transport Tycoon who's worth at least $500 million, say works of `Socialist Realism' art are offering far greater returns ... «Bloomberg, May 15»
Young Reporter: Saatchi: Pangaea, Paper Cuts and Socialist Realism
What is interesting is how it depicts Socialist Realism (defined as: the theory of art, literature, and music officially sanctioned by the state in some Communist ... «Your Local Guardian, Mar 15»
Get real: why socialist realist painting deserves another look
Since the end of the Soviet era, it's been dismissed as the mediocre official art of the Communist Party. But socialist realism is much more varied and interesting ... «The Calvert Journal, Dec 14»
The Photo Style That Socialist Realism Crushed
By the mid-1930s, as the idea of socialist realism was foisted upon artists and photographers, the pictorialists' time was over. Those who did not conform were ... «The Moscow Times, Oct 14»
Putin, a hero of socialist realism
The resent work by Andrei Budaev shows the giant Putin being lionised by, among other heroes, the genocidal Hafez al-Assad of Syria and the Belarus ... «Slipped Disc, Sep 14»
Fictions Built Upon Fictions: The Decline Of Totality In Pop
And also: socialist realism [sotsrealism]. This last is key, because it is in large part due to the spectre of communism – and of communist theories of art – that ... «The Quietus, Jul 14»
The architecture of socialist realism
The strong imagery of socialist realism, so evident in the architecture of the era, survives in the post-Socialist world that covers a large area including Central and ... «Inquirer.net, Apr 14»
'Soviet Sport' reexamines Socialist Realism
With works by acclaimed figures including Alexander Deineka and Viktor Popkov, the exhibition undermines the stereotype that Socialist Realism was nothing ... «Tne Moscow News, Feb 14»
Soviet Art. Soviet Sport, Sotheby's, London
Socialist Realism remains among the least-known movements in 20th-century art. Conceived in opposition to western formalism and experimentation, it was the ... «Financial Times, Jan 14»
Ways of looking beyond the propaganda
The Russian realist painters were not unaware of developments in the ... These are not words that we associate with the bombastic nature of Socialist Realism; ... «Financial Times, Dec 13»
