The Construction of the New Man： A Historical Perspective  

作　　者：Angel Ferrero 

机构地区：[1]Department of Audiovisual Communication,Universitat Autbnoma de Barcelona,Barcelona,Spain

出　　处：《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》2012年第2期255-276,共22页中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：The purpose of the paper is to draw the historical background of the New Man in Socialism from his beginning in the 1917 avant-garde circles after the October Revolution in Russia--specially in Vsevolod Meyerhold＇s technique of typage--to its oversimplification as official aesthetic during the Stalin＇s period and its adoption by the People＇s Republic of China and the motivation behind it. The iconic and extremely codified images of the Socialist New Man are analyzed under the new light of the recent essays about art, which defy the traditional image among scholars of the style as monolithic and lackluster. The later part of the paper deals with the fading away of Socialist Realism during the 1980s as the Soviet bloc disintegrated and China evolved into a ＂socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics,＂ but persisted, applied adamantly, in North Korea, who exports it to African countries like Senegal or Namibia.The purpose of the paper is to draw the historical background of the New Man in Socialism from his beginning in the 1917 avant-garde circles after the October Revolution in Russia--specially in Vsevolod Meyerhold＇s technique of typage--to its oversimplification as official aesthetic during the Stalin＇s period and its adoption by the People＇s Republic of China and the motivation behind it. The iconic and extremely codified images of the Socialist New Man are analyzed under the new light of the recent essays about art, which defy the traditional image among scholars of the style as monolithic and lackluster. The later part of the paper deals with the fading away of Socialist Realism during the 1980s as the Soviet bloc disintegrated and China evolved into a ＂socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics,＂ but persisted, applied adamantly, in North Korea, who exports it to African countries like Senegal or Namibia.

关 键 词：art history Socialist Realism USSR RUSSIA China ASIA 

分 类 号：F123.9[经济管理—世界经济] TP391.41[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术]