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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Soviet art"”.
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Triumphant bowls of socialism: A cultural history of the Soviet toilet
… dissertation traces the role of the toilet in Soviet art, film, and literature from the 1917 Russian Revolution through the end of the twentieth century. It analyzes the toilet as art object, as trope, and as metaphor in order to identify the particularities of Russian artistic and literary …
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Life Between Two Panels: Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
Beneath the facade of total conformity in the Soviet Union, a dynamic underground community of artists and intellectuals worked in forced isolation. Rejecting the mandates of state-sanctioned Socialist Realist art, these dissident artists pursued diverse creative directions in their private …
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Physical Culture and the Embodied Soviet Subject, 1921-1939: Surveillance, Aesthetics, Spectatorship
… visual and written culture of the interwar Soviet Union dealing with the body as an object of public observation, appreciation, and critique. It explores how the need to construct new Soviet subjectivities was realised through the figure of the body. I explore the representation of ‘physical …
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NAVIGATING ‘NATIONAL FORM’ AND ‘SOCIALIST CONTENT’ IN THE GREAT LEADER’S HOMELAND: GEORGIAN PAINTING AND NATIONAL POLITICS UNDER STALIN, 1921-39
… national politics in the first two decades of Soviet power in Georgia, 1921-1939, focussing in particular on the period following the consolidation of Stalin’s power at the helm of the Communist Party in 1926-7. In the Stalin era, Georgians enjoyed special status among Soviet nations thanks to …
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The Aesthetics of Censorship and the Russian Avant-Garde: Abstraction Beyond Art
This thesis reconsiders the art of the Russian avant-garde by exploring its engagement with, influence from and contribution towards an unconventional area of culture: censorship. Although extensive research has already considered the way artists such as Malevich, Rodchenko and Stepanova blurred …