Tiapoushkin as an Ideologist of Mass Culture ("Straight" ("Vypriamila") by G.I. Uspensky in the context of sociological aesthetics)
G.I. Uspensky Straight 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.