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Russian Fairy Tales Unit 3 Review: Avant-Garde & Socialist Realism

Attributes of Soviet Modernist Culture:

- proletarian - didactic - rational - urban - modern - militaristic/adventurous - utopian

The Avant-Garde:

- the vanguard of art - embraced new artistic techniques and new ideas about what constituted art

Socialist Realism

1932: term first used at Soviet Writer’s Union

1934: concept adopted at First Writer’s Union Congress

- the only state-sanctioned method for producing Soviet art and literature

- a method to produce art that is a “truthfully historically concrete representation of reality in its historical development”

Socialist Realism is…

proletarian (accessible, easily understandable, relevant to peasants and workers)

typical (scenes of everyday life and ordinary people)

realistic (not abstract or non-representational)

partisan (supportive of the Party and the State)

According to Socialist Realism, art should be…

- monumental

- unambiguous

- teaching Party-sanctioned lessons

- teleological; everything leads to a bright future

Sergei Vasil’evich Chekhonin, Petrograd Red 7th November (1919)

Aleksandr Deineka, Textile Workers (1927)

Semen Chuikov, Dungan woman (1929)

Alexander Samokhvalov, Sergei Kirov Reviews the Athletic Parade (1935)

Yuri Pimenov, New Moscow (1937)

Alexander Gerasimov, Stalin and Voroshilov at the Kremlin (1938)

Wojciech Fangor, Forging the Scythes (1954)

Lu Yanshao, An Emerging Industrial City (1962)

Viktor Ivanov, Family (1964/1965)

Satar Aitiev, For World Peace! (c. 1970)

Zef Shoshi, Going to Work (1970)

Tang Daxi, The People’s Apples (1973)

Song Wenzhi, Taihu’s New Look (1979)

Koço Vogli, I Am a Soldier (1983)

Mels Akynbekov, Shepherds (1984)

Robert Permeti, We Must Win (1984)

Guri Madhi, When We Don’t Go to the Stadium (1986)

Park Ryong, Farewell (1997)

[caption translates to “We were born to make fairy tales come true!”]

Katerina Clark & The Soviet Novel (1981)

Clark’s book changed the way Socialist Realism was studied. Socialist Realism combines realistic and utopian elements, “the most matter-of-fact, everyday reality and the most heroic prospects.” Of course, this makes Socialist Realist narratives like fairy tales.

Clark’s Master Plot

Positive Hero (moves from spontaneity to consciousness)

Task

Mentor

Trials (task is frustrated)

Climax (appears that task will fail)

Consultation with the Mentor

Hero Receives Object from Mentor

Completion of the Task

Happy Ending

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We need to keep making 9/11 jokes until some corporation tries to jump in on the meme and gets promptly executed by the public

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Statue of the goddess Sekhmet

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1391-1353 BC. From temple of Amenhotep III, Karnak. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Turin. Cat. 245

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The level of evil it is to shoot a Palestinian journalist in the head, falsely claim you didn’t do it, and then send the military to attack her funeral, the mourners, and forcefully rip the Palestinian flag off her coffin. It’s monstrous.

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The Apparition (Cathy’s Ghost at the Window) -  Fritz Eichenberg - 1943

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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Diesel engine kitty

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A cat

English added by me :)

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Nicola Samori – L’oro galleggia

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