{"product_id":"totalitarian-art-igor-golomstock-9781590206706","title":"Totalitarian Art: In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and the People's Republic of China","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTotalitarian Art\u003c\/i\u003e, artist and university professor Igor Golomstock presents a history of the images and themes used by authoritarian governments and nations.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the Soviet Union, and later in Maoist China, theories of mass artistic appeal were used to promote the Revolution both at home and abroad. In Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy they asserted the putative grandeur of the epoch. All too often, art that served the Revolution became \"total realism,\" and always it became a slave to the state and the cult of personality, and ultimately one more weapon in the arsenal of oppression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Igor Golomstock gives a detailed appraisal of the forms that define totalitarian art and illustrates his text with more than 200 examples of its paintings, posters, sculpture, and architecture, and includes a powerful comparative visual essay which demonstrates the eerie similarity of the official art of these very different regimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Igor Golomstock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590206703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590206706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry N. Abrams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d","brand":"Igor Golomstock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045760954623,"sku":"9781590206706","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c41e4ce-7648-48f4-a1f5-487dd8ef9822.jpg?v=1684980597","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/totalitarian-art-igor-golomstock-9781590206706","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}