Art of the Soviets : Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in a One-Party State, 1917-1992

by Bown, Matthew Cullerne; Taylor, Brandon

• ISBN13: 9780719037351
• ISBN10: 0719037352
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-05-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of colour plates
Introduction	p. 1
Lenin's Plan for Monumental Propaganda	p. 16
The 'new man's' body: a motif in early Soviet culture	p. 33
On AKhRR	p. 51
Allegory and iconography in Socialist Realist painting	p. 73
Socialist Realist architecture: theory and practice	p. 86
The Soviet Pavilion in Paris	p. 106
Aleksandr Gerasimov	p. 121
Painting in the non-Russian republics	p. 140
Art in the twilight of totalitarianism	p. 154
The 'art of memory': retrospectivism in Soviet painting of the Brezhnev era	p. 161
Ilya Glazunov: a career in art	p. 188
Non-conformist art in Leningrad	p. 196
Independent culture: a Soviet phenomenon	p. 205
Notes on contributors	p. 217
Index	p. 219
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