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OverviewIn Devastation and LaughterAnnie Grin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, theatre, cinema, and the circus under Lenin and Stalin. Grin 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 Grin provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early Soviet art. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Annie GérinPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9781487502430ISBN 10: 1487502435 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 02 November 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Transliteration, Translations, Dates Acknowledgments Introduction: Devastation and Laughter 1: Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter 2: Soviet Satirical Print Culture, a Serious Affair 3: Laughter in the Ring, in the Street and on Stage: The Emergence of a “Satirical Scene” 4: Laughter on the Silver Screen: From Satire to Optimistic Comedy 5: The Strategies and Targets of Satire 6: The Rhetorics of Satire and Socialist Realism Conclusion Appendix: “On Laughter” (1931) Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsGerin's work is theoretically informed but not overburdened, her focus being cultural history and close reading of visual materials. It is in the selection and dissection of such print materials as posters and journals that Gerin truly excels. -- Tom Haxhi, Colombia University * Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol 61 no 3 * Gerin's work is theoretically informed but not overburdened, her focus being cultural history and close reading of visual materials. It is in the selection and dissection of such print materials as posters and journals that Gerin truly excels. -- Tom Haxhi, Colombia University * Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol 61 no 3 * Devastation and Laughter sheds light on the origins, functions, and nature of early Soviet satire, and is especially useful as a study of Anatolii Lunacharskii. It is sure to be a helpful resource in a wide variety of subfields within Russian and east European studies, including but not limited to its author's field of origin, Art History. -- Maya Vonikour, NYU * <EM>Slavic Review</EM> * Author InformationAnnie Gérin is a professor in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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