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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the extent to which, despite its anachronistic look, the official aesthetics of the Soviet Union in its founding decades betray a tremendous sense of conflictedness.
Abstract: its conflictlessness, referring to the harmonious relationships between worker and means of production, between masses and leader that appear within its images. Without doubt, pictures of social concordance comprise a major thematic impulse in Soviet visual practice. Ironically, despite its seamless harmonies, the official aesthetics of the Soviet Union in its founding decades betray a tremendous sense of conflictedness: one born of the fragile relationship between revolution, history, and technology. Clement Greenberg famously excluded socialist realism from the canon of Western modernism for inhabiting the realm of mass culture or kitsch.1 Yet, in at least one significant way socialist realism approaches Greenberg's modernism: it expresses a profound skepticism about the cultural effects of photomechanical reproduction. This essay explores the extent to which-despite its anachronistic look-socialist realism in the visual arts must be understood as a
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: The Problem of Self-Representation as discussed by the authors is a classic example of the problem of self-representation in self-knowledge and self-love. But it is also related to our work.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Reading and Self-Knowledge 2. Ethical Values and the Literary Imagination 3. Later Ancient Literary Realism 4. The Problem of Self-Representation 5. Petrarch's Portrait of Augustine 6. Two Version of Utopia 7. Lectio Spiritualis Notes Index Acknowledgments
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01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: Barber as mentioned in this paper discusses the relationship between popular culture and art in the early 1930s in the Russian Avant-garde and discusses the meaning of artworks of the Stalin period.
Abstract: List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - PART 1 POPULAR CULTURE, EVERYDAY LIFE, IDEOLOGY - Working-Class Culture and Political Culture in the 1930s J.Barber - Stalinism and Popular Culture R.Robin - Stalinism and Carnival R.Sartorti - Stalinism and the Restructuring of Revolutionary Utopianism R.Stites - PART 2 ART - Presuppositions of Socialist Realism A.Flaker - Problems in the Study of Stalinist Culture I.Golomstock - The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde B.Groys - Socialist Realism as Institutional Practice: Observations on the Interpretation of the Works of Art of the Stalin Period J.Guldberg - The Avant-Garde and Art of the Stalinist Era V.Rakitin - PART 3 LITERATURE - Education and Conversion: The Road to the New Man in the Totalitarian Bildungsroman H.G nther - Satire under Stalinism: Zoshchenko's Golubaya kniga and Bulgakov's Master and Margarita J.U.Peters - PART 4 ARCHITECTURE - Moscow in the 1930s and the Emergence of a New City V.Paperny - The Ultimate Palladianist, Outliving Revolution and the Stalin Period: Architect Ivan V.Zholtovsky A.M.Vogt - PART 5 FILM - From the Avant-Garde to Socialist Realism: Some Reflections on the Signifying Procedures in Eisenstein's Stachka and Donskoi's Raduga B.Bollag - The Annexation of History: Eisenstein and the Ivan Grozny Cult of the 1940s B.Uhlenbruch - Index
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01 Jun 1991
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors of the book "Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism" discuss the importance of the commonplace theory of the "commonplace" in American literature.
Abstract: From the late 1860s until her death in 1910, Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the best-known writers in America. She broke into print as a young woman in the 1860s with "Life in the Iron Mills," which established her as one of the pioneers of American realism. She developed a literary theory of the "commonplace" nearly two decades before William Dean Howels shaped his own version of the concept. Yet, in spite of her importance to the literary and popular culture of her time, she has been, for the most part, ignored by scholars. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism helps to change that.
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TL;DR: The authors investigates Hans Morgenthau and Raymond Aron, two leading classical realist scholars, and argues that neither advocated a strict version of power politics, on the contrary, they both attempted to find the balance Carr suggested between realist concerns and ideals necessary to spur political action.
Abstract: Realism contends that politics is a struggle for power and/or survival, and consequently depicts international politics as a realm of recurrent conflicts among states with very little prospect for change. It is therefore not traditionally regarded as an approach which entertains an idea of progress. E.H Carr famously rejected “pure realism” as an untenable position precisely because it fails to provide “a ground for action,” and advocated finding a delicate balance between realism and utopia, as meaningful political action must include both. While realism certainly entails a degree of pessimism, it is far fetched to claim that realist scholars are radically sceptical about the future of international relations. The article investigates Hans Morgenthau and Raymond Aron, two leading classical realist scholars, and argues that neither advocated a strict version of power politics. On the contrary, they both attempted to find the balance Carr suggested between realist concerns and ideals necessary to spur political action. Both were also very aware of the dangers of nihilism, and upheld hope in the future of humankind, even if this hope remains tempered by pessimism as to whether it will ever realize its destiny.
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