Lot's Wife and the Venus of Milo

Conflicting Attitudes to the Cultural Heritage in Modern Russia

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Paperback, 178 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9780521157902
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Professor Thompson's subject is the uneasy position of art within Marxist ideology: what part can the arts of the past play in the new society? On the one hand there was the sense of a continuing cultural tradition, more or less independent of ideological change symbolized in the image of the Venus of Milo, and on the other, the iconoclastic demands for a complete break with the past in all its forms made by revolutionary artists, who found in the myth of Lot's wife a symbol of the attractions of the past. Originally published in 1978, the book discusses the problems and paradoxes involved from a general theoretical point of view and in the work of individual artists. Professor Thompson suggests that the power inherent in art to resist social and ideological changes undermines all rationalistic theories of art, those of the Marxists and those fashionable in the West.

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ISBN13:9780521157902
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:178

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Introduction; Part I: 1. The problem of art: i. Marxism; ii. The Symbolists; iii. The Futurists; iv. Correspondence from Two Corners; 2. The necessity of art: the last years of Aleksandr Blok; 3. The redundancy of art: Soviet and Marxist views of art in the 1920s; Part II: 4. The secret of art: two Soviet myths: i. Khlebnikov's Night Search; ii. Bagritsky's February; 5. The difference of art: some Soviet writers of the 1920s and 1930s: i. Zamyatin; ii. Pil'nyak; iii. Red Cavalry; iv. Yuriy Olesha; v. Andrey Platonov; 6. The fact of art: Leonid Leonov; 7. Some properties of art; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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