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As Communism Collapses Into Ruins, Boris Groys Provokes 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' Demands That Art Should Move From Depicting To Transforming The World. The Revolutionaries Of October 1917 Promised To Create A Society That Was Not Only More Just And More Economically Stable But Also More Beautiful, And They Intended That The Entire Life Of The Nation Be Completely Subordinate To Communist Party Leaders Commissioned To Regulate, Harmonize, And Create A Single Artistic Whole Out Of Even The Most Minute Details. What Were The Origins Of This Idea? And What Were Its Artistic And Literary Ramifications? In Addressing These Issues, Groys Questions The View That Socialist Realism Was An Art For The Masses. Groys Argues Instead That The Total Art Proposed By Stalin And His Followers Was Formulated By Well-educated Elites Who Had Assimilated The Experience Of The Avant-garde And Been Brought To Socialist Realism By The Future-oriented Logic Of Avant-garde Thinking. After Explai

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Author

Boris Groys

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691055961

Category

art

Subjects

Fiction, History, Art

Rating

4.03 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14