Series | Quaderni di Venezia Arti
Edited book | Behind the Image, Beyond the Image
Chapter | Soviet Criticism on ‘Contemporary Western Bourgeois Art’
Soviet Criticism on ‘Contemporary Western Bourgeois Art’
Controversy and Satire at the Time of Khrushchev’s Artistic Thaw
- Giovanni Argan - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
Abstract
Taking into consideration the period of Khrushchev’s artistic Thaw (1956-62), the article analyses, with the help of satirical cartoons of the time, the leading and most widespread judgments expressed by Soviet criticism on contemporary Western art.
Submitted: Nov. 25, 2021 | Published May 13, 2022 | Language: en
Keywords Informal art • Soviet art theory • Soviet criticism • Soviet caricatures • Khrushchev’s Thaw
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ECF_chapter_7248 |
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Argan Giovanni |
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dc.title |
Soviet Criticism on ‘Contemporary Western Bourgeois Art’. Controversy and Satire at the Time of Khrushchev’s Artistic Thaw |
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dc.type |
Chapter |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.description.abstract |
Taking into consideration the period of Khrushchev’s artistic Thaw (1956-62), the article analyses, with the help of satirical cartoons of the time, the leading and most widespread judgments expressed by Soviet criticism on contemporary Western art. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Quaderni di Venezia Arti |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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dc.issued |
2022-05-13 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2021-11-25 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-589-6/soviet-criticism-on-contemporary-western-bourgeois/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/978-88-6969-588-9/024 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2784-8868 |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
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dc.identifier.eisbn |
978-88-6969-588-9 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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with fulltext |
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open |
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dc.peer-review |
no |
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dc.subject |
Informal art |
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dc.subject |
Khrushchev’s Thaw |
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dc.subject |
Soviet art theory |
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dc.subject |
Soviet caricatures |
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dc.subject |
Soviet criticism |
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