Scorched by the Fire of War: Masculinity, War Wounds and Disability in Soviet Visual Culture, 1941–65
Title | Scorched by the Fire of War: Masculinity, War Wounds and Disability in Soviet Visual Culture, 1941–65 |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | McCallum, Claire E. |
Journal | The Slavonic and Eastern European Review |
Volume | 93 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 251-285 |
Date Published | 04/2015 |
Abstract | Drawing on images reproduced in both professional and popular publications, this article charts the changing representation of the war-damaged man in Soviet visual culture from the outbreak of war in 1941 until the reinstatement of Victory Day as a public holiday in 1965. Through such images it is shown that art followed a very different trajectory than literature or film when it came to dealing with such problematic aspects of the war experience, a disjunction that is attributed to the inherent nature of the various cultural genres. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the most dramatic shift in the depiction of the damaged man came — not in the Thaw as we might expect — but in the mid 1960s as part of a wider reassessment of the War and its legacy in Soviet visual culture. |
URL | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.93.2.0251 |