Lot's wife and the Venus of Milo : conflicting attitudes to the cultural heritage in modern Russia / Boris Thomson
1978, 1st edition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425810
ISBN: 052121677X
Physical description; 171 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168) and index. Contents; pt. 1. The problem of art: Marxism ; The symbolists ; The futurists ; Correspondence from two corners -- The necessity of art: the last years of Aleksandr Blok -- The redundancy of art: Soviet and Marxist views of art in the 1920s -- pt. 2. The secret of art: two Soviet myths: Khlebnikov's Night search ; Bagritsky's February -- The difference of art: some Soviet writers of the 1920s and 1930s: Zamyatin ; Pil nyak ; Red cavalry ; Yuriy Olesha ; Andrey Platonov -- The fact of art: Leonid Leonov -- Some properties of art. Subjects; Geschichte 1917-1960. Socialist realism in art Soviet Union. Socialist realism in literature. Communism and art Soviet Union. Arts, Soviet.
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