Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures
«Opens our eyes to the visual cultures produced by communist societies in new and unexpected ways, raising vital questions about collective endeavour, soft power, freedom of expression, cultural exchange, identity construction and the power of imagination.»
Mollie Arbuthnot, Journal of Visual Culture
Stereotypes often cast communism as a defunct, bankrupt ideology and a relic of the distant past. However, recent political movements like Europe's anti-austerity protests, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street suggest that communism is still very much relevant and may even hold the key to a new, idealized future. Les mer
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monuments, murals and sculpture, to recycling campaigns and wall newspapers, all of which work to make communism's ideas and values material. Contributors work to resist the widespread demonization of communism, demystifying its ideals and suggesting that it has visually shaped the modern world in undeniable
and complex ways. Together, contributors answer curcial questions like: What can be salvaged and reused from past communist experiments? How has communism impacted the cultures of late capitalism? And how have histories of communism left behind visual traces of potential utopias? An interdisciplinary look at the cultural currency of communism today, The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures demonstrates the value of revisiting the practices of the past to form a better vision of
the future.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780190885533
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 26 x 18 cm
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«Opens our eyes to the visual cultures produced by communist societies in new and unexpected ways, raising vital questions about collective endeavour, soft power, freedom of expression, cultural exchange, identity construction and the power of imagination.»
Mollie Arbuthnot, Journal of Visual Culture