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Automatic for the Masses - The Death of the Author and the Birth of Socialist Realism (Paperback)
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Automatic for the Masses - The Death of the Author and the Birth of Socialist Realism (Paperback)
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At the end of the 1920s, the Modernist and avant-garde artistic
programmes of the early Soviet Union were swept away by the rise of
Stalinism and the dictates of Socialist Realism. Did this aesthetic
transition also constitute a conceptual break, or were there unseen
continuities between these two movements? In Automatic for the
Masses, Petre M. Petrov offers a novel, theoretically informed
account of that transition, tracing those connections through
Modernist notions of agency and authorship. Reading the statements
and manifestos of the Formalists, Constructivists, and other Soviet
avant-garde artists, Petrov argues that Socialist Realism
perpetuated in a new form the Modernist "death of the author." In
interpreting this symbolic demise, he shows how the official
culture of the 1930s can be seen as a perverted realization of
modernism's unrealizable project. An insightful and challenging
interpretation of the era, Automatic for the Masses will be
required reading for those interested in understanding early Soviet
culture.
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