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Author Petrov, Petre M., 1974- author.

Title Automatic for the masses : the death of the author and the birth of Socialist realism / Petre M. Petrov
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015

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Contents Introduction -- The imperative of form -- The imperative of content -- Knowledge become practice -- The organization of things -- The organization of minds -- The anonymous centre of style -- The unbearable light of being -- Ideology as authentication -- The blind, the seeing, and the shiny -- Life happens
Summary In Automatic for the Masses, Petre M. Petrov offers a novel, theoretically informed account of the transition from modernism to Socialist Realism, tracing their connections through Modernist notions of agency and authorship
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Socialist realism.
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union
Socialist realism in art -- Soviet Union
Modernism (Art) -- Soviet Union
Socialist Realist.
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Eastern.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Art)
Socialist realism
Socialist realism in art
Soviet Union
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442616936
1442616938