The Total Art of Stalinism by Boris Groys

Author:Boris Groys
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2014-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

This is a statement that could be endorsed by more than one contemporary champion of postmodernism in the struggle against avant-garde “corporate art.”36

The vehemence with which Reingardt condemns the avant-garde derives from the profound conviction that, in different forms adequate to the age, Soviet socialist realism preserved the vital modernist life-building impulse that modernism itself lost long ago, when it entered the academies and prostituted itself to its archenemy, the philistine consumer. In this view, the freedom of Soviet art is higher than the pseudofreedom of the Western market. It is the freedom to ignore the tastes of the people and create for the state a new individual and consequently a new people. Although it is with rare exceptions expressed in ethical and political terms, the highest goal in the building of socialism is thus aesthetic, and socialism itself is regarded as the supreme measure of beauty.37 Before this culture could be regarded from a truly aesthetic perspective, it had to fail and become a thing of the past.

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