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Totalitarian Art: In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy, and the People's Republic of China

Totalitarian Art: In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy, and the People's Republic of China

Golomstock, Igor
Chandler, Robert

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Art HistoryGeneral ArtRussian & Former Soviet Union Art

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ISBN10: 1590206703
ISBN13: 9781590206706
Publisher: Abrams Books
Published: Oct 1 2012
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In Totalitarian Art, artist and university professor Igor Golomstock presents a history of the images and themes used by authoritarian governments and nations.

In the Soviet Union, and later in Maoist China, theories of mass artistic appeal were used to promote the Revolution both at home and abroad. In Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy they asserted the putative grandeur of the epoch. All too often, art that served the Revolution became total realism, and always it became a slave to the state and the cult of personality, and ultimately one more weapon in the arsenal of oppression.

Igor Golomstock gives a detailed appraisal of the forms that define totalitarian art and illustrates his text with more than 200 examples of its paintings, posters, sculpture, and architecture, and includes a powerful comparative visual essay which demonstrates the eerie similarity of the official art of these very different regimes.

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