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Automatic for the masses : the death of the author and the birth of Socialist realism / Petre M. Petrov.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petrov, Petre, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socialist realism.
- Modernism (Aesthetics)--Soviet Union.
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Socialist realism in art--Soviet Union.
- Socialist realism in art.
- Modernism (Art)--Soviet Union.
- Modernism (Art).
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, New York ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Automatic for the Masses, Petre M. Petrov offers a novel, theoretically informed account of the transition from modernism to Socialist Realism, tracing their connections through Modernist notions of agency and authorship.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The imperative of form
- The imperative of content
- Knowledge become practice
- The organization of things
- The organization of minds
- The anonymous centre of style
- The unbearable light of being
- Ideology as authentication
- The blind, the seeing, and the shiny
- Life happens.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-300) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-1694-6
- 1-4426-1693-8
- OCLC:
- 913977509
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