{"product_id":"9780226827162-collective-body","title":"Collective Body","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e A study of the Socialist Realist aesthetic focusing on the artist Aleksandr Deineka.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Dislodging the avant-garde from its central position in the narrative of Soviet art,\u003ci\u003e Collective Body\u003c\/i\u003e presents painter Aleksandr Deineka’s haptic and corporeal version of Socialist Realist figuration as an alternate experimental aesthetic that, at its best, activates and organizes affective forces for collective ends. Christina Kiaer traces Deineka’s path from his avant-garde origins as the inventor of the proletarian body in illustrations for mass magazines after the revolution through his success as a state-sponsored painter of monumental, lyrical canvases during the Terror and beyond. In so doing, she demonstrates that Socialist Realism is best understood not as a totalitarian \u003ci\u003estyle \u003c\/i\u003ebut as a fiercely collective art \u003ci\u003esystem \u003c\/i\u003ethat organized art outside the market and formed part of the legacy of the revolutionary modernisms of the 1920s.\u003ci\u003e Collective Body \u003c\/i\u003eaccounts for the way the art of the October Revolution continues to capture viewers’ imaginations by evoking the elation of collectivity, making viewers not just comprehend but truly \u003ci\u003efeel \u003c\/i\u003esocialism, and retaining the potential to inform our own art-into-life experiments within contemporary political art. Deineka figures in this study not as a singular master, in the spirit of a traditional monograph, but as a limit case of the system he inhabited and helped to create.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41617108992097,"sku":"9780226827162","price":57.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40836444.jpg?v=1776437426","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780226827162-collective-body","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}