Landscape Imagination of the 1970s and 80s: Sci-Fi Painting as a Manifestation of the Technocratic Utopia
Landscape Imagination of the 1970s and 80s: Sci-Fi Painting as a Manifestation of the Technocratic Utopia
Author(s): Alexander SautkinSubject(s): Visual Arts, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, History of Art
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: sci-fi painting; landscape; imagination; technocratism; utopianism; cosmism;
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the development of sci-fi landscape painting in late Soviet art. The article is based on an analysis of the popular science magazine, “Technics for the Youth”, contributed by participants from USSR and other socialistic countries. The genre is a synthesis of official communist ideology with its utopian technocratism and some ideas of the philosophy of cosmism, representing the anticipation of the imminent future of humanity as it is characterized by overcoming the spontaneous forces of nature and the arrangement of man’s earthly and extraterrestrial environment. The methodological approach of G. Durand allows us to interpret this cultural phenomenon of imaginary landscapes in line with the “diurnal” mode of imagination.
Journal: LOGOS - A Journal of Religion, Philosophy, Comparative Cultural Studies and Art
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 104
- Page Range: 121-129
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English