Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style

by Marina Balina, Nancy Condee, Evgeny Dobrenko

Overview

Sots-art, the mock use of the Soviet ideological clichés 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810116535
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	12/25/1999
Series:	Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Edition description:	1
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d)

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 "Political Economy of Socialist Realism" and co-editor with Katerina Clark of "Soviet Culture and Power," 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 I—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 II—Sots-Art and Poetry

Socialist Realism, a Postscriptum: Dimitrii Prigov and the Aesthetic Limits of Sots-Art
Evgeny Dobrenko

Lev Rubinshtein's Early Conceptualism: The Programs of Works
Gerald Janecek

A Transfiguration of Kitsch—Timur Kibirov's Sentiments: A Farewell Elegy for Soviet Civilization
Gregory Freidin

Iosif Vissarionovich Pushkin, or Sots-Art and the New Russian Poetry
Vitaly Chernetsky

Part III—Sots-Art and Prose

Vladimir Sorokin's "Theater of Cruelty"
Mark Lipovetsky

The Diary of a Writer from Tëplyi Stan': The Beautifulness of Life by Evgenii Popov
 Marina Kanevskaya

Reading Palisandria: Of Menippean Satire and Sots-Art
Larisa Rudova

Viktor Pelevin and the End of Sots-Art
Gerald McCausland

Notes on Contributors