Tiapoushkin as an Ideologist of Mass Culture ("Straight" ("Vypriamila") by G.I. Uspensky in the context of sociological aesthetics)
G.I. Uspensky <i>Straight</i> main character Tiapoushkin proclaimed that the statue of "Venus de Milo" is an ideal of people's morality. He took Venus to represent a working peasant woman or a woman devoted to revolution. The subsequent transformations in aesthetic perception of "Venus de Milo" in popular culture show that Tiapoushkin properly understood the seamy side of the ideal: in the XX century it became one of standard models of common taste.