Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) by Gérin, Annie

Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, theatre, cinema,...
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Author: Annie Gérin
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Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s) by Gérin, Annie

Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)

$118.24

Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)

$118.24
Author: Annie Gérin
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, theatre, cinema, and the circus under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor untheorized. The author sheds light on the texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, and the impact his writings had on satirists. While the Avant-Garde and Socialist Realism were necessarily forward-looking and utopian, satire afforded artists the means to examine critically past and present subjects, themes, and practice. Devastation and Laughter is the first work to bring Soviet theoretical writings on the use of satire to the attention of scholars outside of Russia. By introducing important bodies of work that have largely been overlooked in the fields of art history and film and theatre history, Annie Gérin provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early Soviet art.



Author: Annie Gérin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781487526542

About the Author
Gérin, Annie: - Annie Gérin is a professor in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal.


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