Skinner, Amy 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X
(2016)
Exploring the hinterlands: avant-garde temporality, socialist realism, and Pogodin's Aristocrats.
Studies in Theatre and Performance, 36 (3).
pp. 257-268.
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Abstract
Soviet socialist realism is frequently constructed as the death knell of the Russian avant-garde. The combination of vague instructions (mainly concerning the required effect of the work, rather than its formal construction) with severe consequences for non-compliance restricted the appetite for experimentation amongst Soviet writers of the socialist realist era. This article considers the relationship between avant-garde technique and the socialist realist project through a case study of one of the earliest socialist realist plays, Nikolai Pogodin’s Aristocrats (1934–5). Through analysis of the temporal aesthetic underwriting Pogodin’s play, the article explores how avant-garde approaches to temporality continue to influence post-avant-garde play-texts, suggesting a model for the theatrical transitions that occur at the avant-garde hinterlands. Finally, it turns to the production of Pogodin’s play under Nikolai Okhlopkov at the Realistic Theatre and his use of the vortex form as a scenographic idiom. The article concludes by arguing that these hinterland texts, where avant-garde technique serves socialist realist intentions, form a vital moment in understanding how a legacy for Russian avant-garde practice can be defined.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Status: | Published |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14682761.2016.1225184 |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general > NX456.5.P38 Performance Art |
| School/Department: | School of the Arts |
| Institutes: | Institute for Social Justice |
| URI: | https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/10657 |
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