TOTALITARIAN ART IN THE SOVIET UNION, THE THIRD REICH, FASCIST ITALY & THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA by Igor Golomstock

(Subject: Other Topics - Diverse Subjects…) A comparative study of the official art of Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy. In the Soviet Union, and later in Maoist China, theories of mass artistic appeal were used to promote the Revolution both at home and abroad. In Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy they asserted the putative grandeur of the epoch. All too often, art that served the Revolution or the new millennial society became total realism, and became a slave to the state and the cult of personality, ultimately one more weapon in the arsenal of oppression. The author gives a detailed appraisal of the forms that define totalitarian art and illustrates his text with more than two hundred examples of its paintings, posters, sculpture and architecture (Published: 1990) (Publisher: IconEditions) (ISBN: 0064332667) (Pagination: 416pp b/w photos) (Condition: Very good in d/w) UL-XXXXXX