Collective Body Program concepts / learning to program illustrates humanist attitudes to a

illustrates humanist attitudes to a wide range of topics

This undercover agent can’t disguise his true desire

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rather than vertically and from right to left

—Timothy Vick

Collective Body Program concepts / learning to program illustrates humanist attitudes to aA study of the Socialist Realist aesthetic focusing on the artist Aleksandr Deineka. Dislodging the avant garde from its central position in the narrative of Soviet art, Collective Body presents painter Aleksandr Deinekas haptic and corporeal version of Socialist Realist figuration not as the enemy of revolutionary art, but as an alternate experimental aesthetic that, at its best, activates and organizes affective forces for collective ends. Tracing