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SUMMARY:Art for the new society: Russian art in the service of the Revolut
 ion - Dr Natalia Murray\, Cambridge
DTSTART:20171123T173000Z
DTEND:20171123T190000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Already in 1917 the leader of the new Bolshevik State\, Vladim
 ir Lenin\, proclaimed that culture should support political needs\, which 
 effectively meant that all culture was now viewed as propaganda. Like Leni
 n\, Trotsky believed that ‘the essence of the new culture will be not an
  aristocratic one for a privileged minority\, but a mass culture\, a unive
 rsal and popular one.’ This lecture will examine the impact of the 1917 
 revolution on artists and the quest of the new government for a new form o
 f proletarian art. How was this to be defined? How would it come about? Wh
 ere did it go?  To answer these questions\, we will look at the first expr
 essions of so-called proletarian art after the revolution – especially L
 enin’s Plan for Monumental Propaganda - a strategy that employed visual 
 monumental art (revolutionary slogans and monumental sculpture) as an impo
 rtant means of propagating revolutionary and Communist ideas. In this lect
 ure we will look at the new role of art and avant-garde artists after the 
 1917 October Revolution. Was art useful for the socialist revolution or wa
 s revolution useful for art?
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College
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