{"product_id":"devastation-and-laughter-annie-grin-9781487526542","title":"Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s-1930s)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDevastation and Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eAnnie G駻in explores the use of satire in the visual arts, theatre, cinema, and the circus under Lenin and Stalin. G駻in traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor untheorized. The author sheds light on the texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, and the impact his writings had on satirists. While the Avant-Garde and Socialist Realism were necessarily forward-looking and utopian, satire afforded artists the means to examine critically past and present subjects, themes, and practice. \u003ci\u003eDevastation and Laughter \u003c\/i\u003eis the first work to bring Soviet theoretical writings on the use of satire to the attention of scholars outside of Russia. By introducing important bodies of work that have largely been overlooked in the fields of art history and film and theatre history, Annie G駻in provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early Soviet art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annie G駻in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487526547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487526542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Annie G駻in","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43942817956095,"sku":"9781487526542","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b86a48fc-1ed7-4edf-860b-32d06fb8816a.jpg?v=1681494532","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/devastation-and-laughter-annie-grin-9781487526542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}