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The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond (New Edition)

Groys, BorisRougle, Charles(Translated by)
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From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders.

Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' goal of producing world-transformative art.

In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.

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Verso
1844678091 / 9781844678099
eBook (EPUB)
27/05/2014
England
English
136 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Previous ed. of this translation: Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992 Description based on print version record.