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Art and Protest in Putin's Russia

Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

By (author) Lena Jonson
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Published: 10th May 2016
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 15mm
Weight: 403g
ISBN-10: 1138687189
ISBN-13: 9781138687189
Barcode No: 9781138687189
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Synopsis
The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being noticeably critical of the regime. As this book, based on extensive original research, shows, there has been gradually emerging over recent decades a significant counter-culture in the art world which satirises and ridicules the regime and the values it represents, at the same time putting forward, through art, alternative values. The book traces the development of art and protest in recent decades, discusses how art of this kind engages in political and social protest, and provides many illustrations as examples of art as protest. The book concludes by discussing how important art has been in facilitating new social values and in prompting political protests.

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"The analysis highlights the importance of the cultural sphere in the construction of challenges to Putin's hegemonic discourse. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."
--L. J. Roselle, Elon University, CHOICE

"Readers will find an extensive bibliography at the end of each chapter... But considering the fact that there are only a few monographs on this topic, this book is a valuable resource for scholars interested in the contemporary Russian art and paths to political opposition in Russia."

Ksenia Radchenko, University of Southern California, Slavic and East European Journal