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Painting the town red : politics and the arts during the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Title
- Painting the town red : politics and the arts during the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic / Bob Dent.
- Author
- Dent, Bob
- Publication
- London : Pluto Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 231 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- The intensely political cultural production that erupted during Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 encompassed music, art, literature, film and theatre. 'Painting the Town Red' is the little-known history of these developments. The book opens with an overview of the political context in Hungary after the First World War and how the Soviet Republic emerged in the chaotic months which followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy. It looks at the subsequent roles during the Soviet Republic of artists, film-makers, actors, musicians and writers, and the attitude of the newly established People's Commissariat for Education and Culture, in which the future internationally renowned Marxist Gyorgy Lukacs played a leading role.At its centre are the questions: why did so many prominent people in the arts world participate in the Soviet Republic and why did their initial enthusiasm later subside? Painting the Town Red is an important contribution to the lively debate about the interaction between art and politics.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-225) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The political and historical context -- Budapest turns Red -- Poster power -- Art for the people -- Cultural polemics --The silent screen talks politics -- Opening up the auditoriums -- Music for all -- The pen goes to battle -- Why? -- What went wrong? -- Postscript: What happened to them?
- Call Number
- JFE 18-7592
- ISBN
- 9780745337760
- 0745337767
- 9780745337777
- 0745337775
- OCLC
- 992781862
- Author
- Dent, Bob, author.
- Title
- Painting the town red : politics and the arts during the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic / Bob Dent.
- Publisher
- London : Pluto Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-225) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1918-1919
- Other Form:
- Online version: DENT, BOB. Painting the town red. [S.l.] : PLUTO PRESS, 2018 9781786802729 (OCoLC)1029209943
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-7592