ART Totalitarian (from the Latin. Totim, totalis - all, whole) - one of the types of normative aesthetics, accompanying communist, fascist and otherwise rigidly centralized state structures.
The relationship between social upheaval and 20 in the aesthetic revolution. obvious. The First World War and Russian revolution take place against a background of already an advanced disintegration of European culture.
Russian avant-garde, briefly survived the socialist revolution was undoubtedly one of its enzymes. In turn, the firstborn of the ideological, totalitarian art - Soviet socialist realism was the direct product of this revolution, and his style resembles the art of the first half of the 19., Is a completely new phenomenon.
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