A Socialist Realist History?

Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades

279 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

How did the Eastern European and Soviet states write their respective histories of art and architecture during 1940s–1960s? The articles address both the Stalinist period and the Khrushchev Thaw, when the Marxist-Leninist discourse on art history was „invented“ and refined. Although this discourse was inevitably „Sovietized“ in a process dictated from Moscow, a variety of distinct interpretations emerged from across the Soviet bloc in the light of local traditions, cultural politics and decisions of individual authors. Even if the new „official“ discourse often left space open for national concerns, it also gave rise to a countermovement in response to the aggressive ideologization of art and the preeminence assigned to (Socialist) Realist aesthetics.

• Reihe: Das östliche Europa: Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte
• Themen: Kunst Themen und Techniken Kunstgeschichte
• ISBN: 9783412511616
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2019
• Größe: 24.5 x 17.5 cm
• Verlag: Böhlau Köln
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Robert Born
• Herausgegeben von: Kristina Jõekalda
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Marina Dmitrieva, Milena Bartlová, Kristina Jõekalda, Katja Bernhardt, Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus, Krista Kodres, Ivan Gerát, Piotr Juszkiewicz, Nataliya Zlydneva, Kädi Talvoja, Juliana Maxim, Carmen Popescu, Virve Sarapik, Branko Mitrovic, Kristina Jõekalda, Krista Kodres, Krista Kodres, Michaela Marek, Ada Raev