Tragic humanism traits in the Soviet monumental art of the 1940s
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2021-1-137-165
Abstract
The theme of immortality as eternal life, which took an important place in the art of the period of the Great Patriotic War / World War II, was most fully expressed in the projects of memorial architecture. The competitions for projects of city centers, monuments and memorials, which were already widely held in those years, became a noticeable phenomenon of artistic life, and the graphic works themselves show that the very content of the concepts of memory and remembrance during the war years underwent significant changes. The attitude to memory becomes an essential dimension of the concept of memoriality; with the saturation of memory by symbols, a new interaction of the perceiving, experiencing and interpreting consciousness appears. That is how the mythologeme of Return is realized and the cultural tissues damaged by the revolution are regenerated. The study of the archetypal concepts of Life, Death, and Immortality in architecture, the visual arts in connection with similar phenomena in journalism and wartime poetry, allows one to understand how the return to lost values is reflected in artistic imagery, affects the cultural climate of the era, endows it with the features of tragic humanism.
About the Author
T. G. Malinina
Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts, Russian Academy of Arts
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tat’yana G. Malinina, Dr. of Sci. (Art Studies).
Bld. 21, Prechistenka Street, Moscow, 119034
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Malinina T.G. Tragic humanism traits in the Soviet monumental art of the 1940s. RSUH/RGGU BULLETIN. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies. 2021;(1):137-165. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2021-1-137-165
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