The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond

The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond - Paperback

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The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond - Paperback

The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond - Paperback

by Boris Groys
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Book Overview

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke 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' goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.
ISBN9781844677078
Author Boris Groys
PublisherVerso
GenreArts, Philosophy, and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond

The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond - Paperback

The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond - Paperback

By Boris Groys

About Boris Groys

Boris Groys is Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University and senior research fellow at the Academy of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. A Russian émigré to Germany, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Münster. His books in English include The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond; Art Power; Going Public; and History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. Carsten Strathausen is associate professor of German and English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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