FINE205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carnivalesque, Neoclassical Architecture, Nathan Altman
18 Oct 2016
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Artists are at the centre of memory building. Russian bolshevik leadership with workers, army took of the state and over threw the czar. Palace square in saint petersburg - site of many important events. Ww1 happening, revolution and civil war all at the same time. Decided to commemorate in the midst of this - we can unite people and reengage them in the revolution. Symbolic relationship and ritualized in the reenactment. No audience, everyone was a participant (everyone was embodying memory of the trauma) Destabilized what the bolsheviks were trying to do at the time. Artists were imagining all the different ways that they could change society. How to educate the masses and rewrite history. No industry, most people were illiterate and no education, Open to new innovation - lm is a great way to educate the masses. Made after the revolution but was about the revolution. Telling them that the october revolution is morally correct.
