NEW LIST - Soviet art gallery
Barry Stoller
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Back_in_the_CCCP
Honoring the memory of actually existing socialism in the first workers
state.
'[T]here is no such thing as static realism, no such thing as realism
which portrays only what is. And if all the great realists of the past,
even though unaware of the fact, were dialecticians, portrayed
development through the conflict of contradictions, then this dialectic
character of our realism is still more strongly stressed by us, when we
speak of socialist realism.
'Socialist realism means not only knowing reality as it is, but knowing
whither it is moving. It is moving towards socialism, it is moving
towards the victory of the international proletariat. And a work of art
created by a socialist realist is one which shows whither that conflict
of contradictions is leading which the artist has seen in life and
reflected in his work.'
-- Karl Radek, speaking at the All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers,
August 1934, text reprinted in Problems of Soviet Literature
(International, 1935), p. 157.
Vladimir Kuznetsov
Barry,
the whole and the most important purpose of art in a USSR (as a
socialist state) was a propaganda of socialist ideas. So the whole
idea of socilaist realism is to show reality from point of view
of propagandists and ideologs of socialism. The "real" reality
did not matter.
You in your analysis of this art were cought on the hook of their
propaganda, that's all.
You cannot even imagine the feeling of suffocation that people
had in relation to the socialist art offered to them.
Thx
vlad
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