The ghost of representation, or, The masque of the red death

Author

Kujundžić, Dragan

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art journal. 1990, Num. 1, Vol. 49, p. 52-55, 6 ill.

ISSN

0004-3249

Abstract (en)

Examines a shift in the attitude toward death between the early (1917-24) and later (1920s-1940s) phases of Soviet Revolutionary culture as a key to understanding the history of the Russian avant-garde and its transformation into Socialist Realism. Focuses on the thanatological perspective of Stalinist culture--exemplified in the mummification and exhibition of Lenin's corpse--reflected in the iconography of death and the sense of the abyss in Stalinist art.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Death
• Culture
• Soviet Union
• 1900-2000
• Socialist Realism
• Art
• Lenin, Vladimir Il'ič, 1870-1924
• Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovič, 1879-1953

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Mort
• Culture
• Union soviétique
• 1900-2000
• Réalisme socialiste
• Art
• Lenin, Vladimir Il'ič, 1870-1924
• Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovič, 1879-1953

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910701-00455916

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