Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetic Transformations as the Ideological Basis of Soviet Fine Arts in 1917–1922

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (4)
Authors
Koptseva, Natalya P.; Seredkina, Natalya N.; Degtyarenko, Kseniya A.
Contact information
Koptseva, Natalya P.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ; Seredkina, Natalya N.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; Degtyarenko, Kseniya A.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
Keywords
soviet art; aesthetics of art; socialist realism; aesthetics of socialist realism; avant-garde artists; A. V. Lunacharsky
Abstract

Soviet fine art represents a unique period in the history of the development of Russian art. The aesthetic and philosophical views of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries were of great importance for its formation and development. The purpose of this study is to systematize the key views on the aesthetics of art by the leading ideologists of the pre-revolutionary (1890–1917) and early socialist (1917–1922) periods that influenced the formation and development of Soviet fine art in 1917–1922. The study was based on the analysis of the content of works devoted to the aesthetics of art, such ideologists as V. S. Solovyov, N. A. Berdyaev, N. G. Chernyshevsky, G. V. Plekhanov, A. V. Lunacharsky, as well as works program speeches and manifestos of avant-garde artists, including V. V. Kandinsky, K. S. Malevich, I. Zdanevich. As a result of the analysis of the texts, the key aesthetic views of the ideologists on the nature and tasks of art were identified and systematized. The authors note that the coexistence of different aesthetic views on the nature of art in a relatively short period of time in the late XIX – early XX centuries predetermined the rapid development of Russian art in the pre-revolutionary period. In addition, this contributed to the identification of the dominant and most acceptable aesthetics of socialist realism for Russian culture. All those transformations that took place in the field of aesthetics of art in the pre-revolutionary period, thus, became the basis for the development of socialist fine arts in 1917–1922

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522–535
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NZUUTM
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https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/150054

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