
Art for the Workers
Proletarian Art and Festive Decorations of Petrograd, 1917-1920
Natalia Murray(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 26. April 2018
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-90-04-35565-1 (ISBN)
Description
Art for the workers explores the mythology and reality of post-revolutionary proletarian art in Russia as well as its expression in the festive decorations of Petrograd between 1917 and 1920. It covers this brief period chronologically, and so permits a close inspection of the development of artistic policies in Russia under the Provisional Government followed by the Bolsheviks. Specifically, this book focuses on the pre-and post-revolutionary debate about the nature of proletarian art and its role in the new Socialist society, particularly focusing on festive decorations, parades and mass performances as expressions of proletarian art and forms of propaganda.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-35565-1 (9789004355651)
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Natalia Murray, PhD (2015), Courtauld Institute of Art, is Associate Lecturer in the history of Russian art at the Courtauld and a Senior Curator, most recently at GRAD gallery. Her last major exhibition was Revolution. Russian Art. 1917-1932 (Royal Academy of Arts, February-April 2017). In 2012 she published a biography of Nikolay Punin (Brill).
Content
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Conventions
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Glossary
Introduction
1 Roots of Proletarian Culture
2 Festivals and Proletarian Art under the Tsars and the Provisional Government
3 Narkompros versus Proletkult: Festivals and Proletarian Art after the Bolshevik Revolution
4 The Victory of Figuration Over Futurism: from Cultural Diversity to Military Parade
5 Street Art - Collective, Politicised: the New Public Spectacle
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Conventions
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Glossary
Introduction
1 Roots of Proletarian Culture
2 Festivals and Proletarian Art under the Tsars and the Provisional Government
3 Narkompros versus Proletkult: Festivals and Proletarian Art after the Bolshevik Revolution
4 The Victory of Figuration Over Futurism: from Cultural Diversity to Military Parade
5 Street Art - Collective, Politicised: the New Public Spectacle
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index