{"product_id":"collective-body-by-christina-kiaer-9780226827162","title":"Collective Body","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study of the Socialist Realist aesthetic focusing on the artist Aleksandr Deineka.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDislodging the avant-garde from its central position in the narrative of Soviet art, \u003ci\u003eCollective Body\u003c\/i\u003e presents painter Aleksandr Deineka’s haptic and corporeal version of Socialist Realist figuration not as the enemy of revolutionary art, but as an alternate experimental aesthetic that, at its best, activates and organizes affective forces for collective ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTracing 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 Great Terror and beyond, \u003ci\u003eCollective Body\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that Socialist Realism is best understood not as a totalitarian \u003ci\u003estyle\u003c\/i\u003e, but rather as a fiercely collective art \u003ci\u003esystem\u003c\/i\u003e that organized art outside the market and formed part of the legacy of the revolutionary modernisms of the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollective Body\u003c\/i\u003e accounts for the way the art of the October Revolution continues to capture viewers’ imaginations through the sheer intensity of its evocation of the elation of collectivity, making viewers not only comprehend but also truly \u003ci\u003efeel\u003c\/i\u003e socialism, and retaining the potential to inform our own art-into-life experiments within contemporary political art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeineka figures in this study not as a singular master, in the spirit of a traditional monograph, but as a limited case of the system he inhabited and helped to create.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430317375724,"sku":"9780226827162","price":104.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226827162.jpg?v=1774559217","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/collective-body-by-christina-kiaer-9780226827162","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}