Art and Protest in Putin's Russia (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series) - Softcover

Jonson, Lena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138687189 ISBN 13: 9781138687189

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

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.

About the Author:

Lena Jonson is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Russia Research Program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm

Review:

"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

"Lena Jonson’s Art and Protest in Putin’s Russia is a very well-researched evaluation of the arts community and potential of counterculture to consolidate itself and confront rigid political structures."

―Branislav Radeljić, University of Glasglow, Europe-Asia Studies

 

 

 

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138687189
• ISBN 13: 9781138687189
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282