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Title: THE TOTAL ART OF STALINISM
AVANT-GARDE, AESTHETIC DICTATORSHIP, AND BEYOND
By: Boris Groys
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1844677079
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Publisher: VERSO BOOKS
Pub. date: 19 July, 2011
Pages: 144
Description: From the ruins of communism, this book 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, it includes an essay that likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' goal of producing world transformative art.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Verso Books
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