Devastation and Laughter
Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
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In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, theatre, cinema, and the circus under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor untheorized. The author sheds light on the texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, and the impact his writings had on satirists. While the Avant-Garde and Socialist Realism were necessarily forward-looking and utopian, satire afforded artists the means to examine critically past and present subjects, themes, and practice. Devastation and Laughter is the first work to bring Soviet theoretical writings on the use of satire to the attention of scholars outside of Russia. By introducing important bodies of work that have largely been overlooked in the fields of art history and film and theatre history, Annie Gérin provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early Soviet art.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2018-11-02
- Mått155 x 231 x 25 mm
- Vikt600 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor282
- FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
- ISBN9781487502430
- UtmärkelserWinner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles of 2019 awarded by the American Library Association 2019 (United States)
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