Newsletter of Phenomenology

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Princeton University Press, Princeton

1992

126 Pages

ISBN 9780691055961

The total art of Stalinism

Avant-garde, aesthetic dictatorship, and beyond

Boris Groys

In the wake of the collapse of communism, this study examines the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. It interprets totalitarian art and literature, and questions the view that social realism was supposedly "art for the masses".

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Groys, (1992). The total art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, aesthetic dictatorship, and beyond, Princeton University Press, Princeton.

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