„Victory Over the Sun” – a New Reality Built with Social Realist „Iconography“

Abstract

Boris Groys in „Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin“ argues, that social realism is not the opposite of the Soviet avant-garde, but its ideological successor, since both are built around the idea of a new human and a new reality. Both also follows a triumphant line of victory over nature, which can be read as overcoming poverty and obscurantism, that can be considered a type of Soviet modernism.

Nutsa Ghoghoberidze's "Uzhmuri" is the best example of "transitivity" from one stage to another, in which the expressive visual view of the avant-garde director and the propagandist narrative of the socialist realist art are layered together.