VISION AND COMMUNISM

• Authors: Matthew Jesse Jackson
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Within global capitalism’s burgeoning atmosphere of sex and death, the Soviet Bloc’s communist societies nurtured devotion to encyclopaedias, museums, nineteenth-century novels, and popular science, as well as an official dedication to an atheistic, rational humanity. As such, this atmosphere turned out to be the twentieth century’s most sustained dissident public visual culture. Within this world, Viktor Koretsky’s art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism’s moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky’s art demonstrates what an “avant-garde late Communist art” would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature.

Keywords

EN

AVANT-GARDE; CAPITALISM; COMMUNISM; DISSIDENT; PUBLIC VISUAL CULTURE; KORETSKY VIKTOR; VISION; PROPAGANDA

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 18 – 25

Contributors

author

Matthew Jesse Jackson

• Departments of Art History & Visual Arts, University of Chicago, 262 Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA