Synopses & Reviews
Sots-art, the mock use of the Soviet ideological clichand#233;s of mass culture, originated in Soviet nonconformist art of the early 1970s. An original and provocative guide,
Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style examines the conceptual aspect of sots-art, sots-art poetry, and sots-art prose, and discusses where these still-vital intellectual currents may lead.
Synopsis
Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style examines the conceptual aspect of sots-art, sots-art poetry, and sots-art prose, and discusses where these still-vital intellectual currents may lead.
About the Author
Marina Balina is an Associate Professor of German and Russian and the chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Illinois Wesleyan University.
Nancy Condee is the Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies and a n Associate Professor of Slavic at the University of Pittsburgh.
Evgeny Dobrenko is professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of andquot;Political Economy of Socialist Realismandquot; and co-editor with Katerina Clark of andquot;Soviet Culture and Power,andquot; both published by Yale University Press. He lives in Sheffield, UK.
Table of Contents
Sots-Art, Conceptualism, and Russian Postmodernism: An Introduction
Nancy Condee
Part Iandmdash;Sots-Art: Between Socialist Realism and Postmodernism
Postmodernism, Communism, and Sots-Art
Mikhail Epstein
Text as a Ready-Made Object
Boris Groys
The Reading, Understanding, and Discursive Genres of Conceptualism
Viktor Lettsev
Playing Absolute Time: Chronotypes of Sots-Art
Marina Balina
Part IIandmdash;Sots-Art and Poetry
Socialist Realism, a Postscriptum: Dimitrii Prigov and the Aesthetic Limits of Sots-Art
Evgeny Dobrenko
Lev Rubinshteinand#39;s Early Conceptualism: The Programs of Works
Gerald Janecek
A Transfiguration of Kitschandmdash;Timur Kibirovand#39;sand#160;Sentiments: A Farewell Elegy for Soviet Civilization
Gregory Freidin
Iosif Vissarionovich Pushkin, or Sots-Art and the New Russian Poetry
Vitaly Chernetsky
Part IIIandmdash;Sots-Art and Prose
Vladimir Sorokinand#39;s andquot;Theater of Crueltyandquot;
Mark Lipovetsky
The Diary of a Writer from Tandeuml;plyi Stanand#39;:and#160;The Beautifulness of Lifeand#160;by Evgenii Popov
and#160;Marina Kanevskaya
Readingand#160;Palisandria: Of Menippean Satire and Sots-Art
Larisa Rudova
Viktor Pelevin and the End of Sots-Art
Gerald McCausland
Notes on Contributors