The Death of the Author and the Birth of Socialist Realism
by
Petre M. Petrov
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
At the end of the 1920s, the Modernist and avant-garde artistic programmes of the early Soviet Union were swept away by the rise of Stalinism and the dictates of Socialist Realism. Did this aesthetic transition also constitute a conceptual break, or were there unseen continuities between these two...