e-flux lectures: Gleb Napreenko, “Modernism as the Unheimlich of Stalinism: The Socialist Realist Regime of the Imaginary Body and its Disruptions in Soviet Art during WWII”
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e-flux lectures: Gleb Napreenko, “Modernism as the Unheimlich of Stalinism: The Socialist Realist Regime of the Imaginary Body and its Disruptions in Soviet Art during WWII”

e-flux lectures: Gleb Napreenko, “Modernism as the Unheimlich of Stalinism: The Socialist Realist Regime of the Imaginary Body and its Disruptions in Soviet Art during WWII”
Date
April 5, 2017, 7pm

Stalinist culture may be described as a culture of excess and of an illusory imaginarium of ideals—in contrast to the productivist ideas of left Soviet artists of the 1920s, which were oriented in an economy of energy and a refusal to produce illusions. The step-by-step mobilization and militarization of labor and culture since the first five-year plan found its truth in the Second World War. But this truth was sometimes subversive and even destructive for the imaginarium of socialist realism: it appeared in the form of suppressed modernist tendencies, which returned in disruptions of the established anti-modernist system of representations. And this time modernism wasn’t a modernism of homeostasis and enlightenment as it was for productivists, but a dark modernism obviously connected to the death drive.

Gleb Napreenko is an art critic, art historian, and theorist born in Moscow, 1989. He is editor-in-chief of the online magazine Controversies, and has published his writings on websites such as openspace.ru and colta.ru, and periodicals such as Art magazine, Artchronika, and Dialog of arts among others.

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Category
Modernism, Bodies, Labor & Work
Subject
Socialist Realism, Soviet Union

Gleb Napreenko is a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a member of the New Lacanian School and World Association of Psychoanalysis. He also works as an art critic and theorist; together with Aleksandra Novozhenova he is the author of The Episodes of Modernism (2018, in Russian). He lives in Moscow.

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