
A Socialist Realist History?
Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades
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A Socialist Realist History?
Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades
About this book
How did the Eastern European and Soviet states write their respective histories of art and architecture during 1940s–1960s? The articles address both the Stalinist period and the Khrushchev Thaw, when the Marxist-Leninist discourse on art history was "invented" and refined. Although this discourse was inevitably "Sovietized" in a process dictated from Moscow, a variety of distinct interpretations emerged from across the Soviet bloc in the light of local traditions, cultural politics and decisions of individual authors. Even if the new "official" discourse often left space open for national concerns, it also gave rise to a countermovement in response to the aggressive ideologization of art and the preeminence assigned to (Socialist) Realist aesthetics.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Krista Kodres / Kristina Jõekalda
- Introductory Remarks to Socialist Art History
- On Formulating the Soviet Canon
- Milena Bartlová
- New Political Orientation of Czech Art History Around 1950
- Katja Bernhardt
- Congenial Kunstwissenschaft
- The Discussion on Art in the East German Zeitschrift für Kunst (1947 – 1950)
- Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus
- Normative Practice and “Tradition Management” in the Polish Art and History of Art of the 1950s
- Ivan Gerát
- Marxism and Iconology in Czechoslovakia
- Preliminary Remarks
- Piotr Juszkiewicz
- Socialist Modernism, Socialist Structuralism
- Mieczysław Porębski’s Socialist Art History
- Nataliya Zlydneva
- Rereading the 1920s
- The Alternative Paths of Soviet Art History During the 1950s and 1960s
- Marina Dmitrieva
- The Riddle of Modernism in the Art Historical Discourse of the Thaw
- Kädi Talvoja
- (Re)nationalizing Estonian Art During the Thaw
- Lively Legacy of Kristjan Raud
- Juliana Maxim
- A Socialist Realist History?
- Grigore Ionescu’s Histories of Architecture
- Carmen Popescu
- Writing in the Void
- The Historiography of Modern Architecture in Socialist Romania
- Virve Sarapik
- CIHA Congresses and Soviet Internationalism
- Branko Mitrović
- The Individualism–Holism Dilemma and the Ideological Framework of Marxism
- Contributors