The Total Art of Stalinism

Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond

• Author(s): Boris Groys,
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Pages: 144
• ISBN_10: 1781689725
  ISBN_13: 9781781689721
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Criticism & Theory , Philosophy / Aesthetics , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) , Literary Criticism / General , Art / History / General ,

Description:... From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.