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Devastation and Laughter - Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) (Hardcover)
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Devastation and Laughter - Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) (Hardcover)
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In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gerin explores the use of satire
in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and
Stalin. Gerin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues
that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was
neither marginal nor un-theorized. The author sheds light on the
theoretical texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by Anatoly
Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, and the impact
his writings had on satirists. While the Avant-Garde and Socialist
Realism were necessarily forward-looking and utopian, satire
afforded artists the means to examine critically past and present
subjects, themes, and practice. Devastation and Laughter is the
first work to bring Soviet theoretical writings on the use of
satire to the attention of scholars outside of Russia. By
introducing important bodies of work that have largely been
overlooked in the fields of art history, film and theatre history,
Annie Gerin provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early
Soviet art.
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