The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond
by Boris Groys
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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.Tags
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The central thesis is that the titular "total art of Stalinism" continued and perhaps even made good on some of the prognostications and promises of the early Soviet avant-garde. This runs counter (a good thing) to the more popular narrative of Stalin's betrayal of the utopian promises of the constructivists, futurists, etc.
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Boris Groys is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Professor at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland. He is the author of Art Power, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.
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- Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin.
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