The plight of art and culture in socialist China (1949-1979) has long been perceived as bleak, monolithic and isolated, characterized by a closed aesthetic and repressive political system that ...

Alexandra Kharitonova, art historian and curator of the Tretyakov Gallery exhibition, "Socialist Realism. Metamorphoses. Soviet Art of 1927-1987", has chosen 10 Soviet artists who thrived in the ...

In “Socialist Realism,” Trisha Low presents a 157-page stream-of-consciousness essay that addresses countless topics, both big and small, but lacks many significant conclusions.

Object Details Author Tupitsyn, Margarita Contents Socialist realism: the state as the author -- Avant-garde and kitsch -- Alienation as a status: Ilya Kabakov and the Collective Actions Group -- Sots ...

Louise Hanson, Moral Realism, Aesthetic Realism, and the Asymmetry Claim, Ethics, Vol. 129, No. 1 (October 2018), pp. 39-69 ...

Bare-chested and smothered in dirt and blood, the three morph into a socialist realist statue that resembles Almaty’s hulking Soviet-era war memorial. “The final statue scene to me is a foreshadowing ...

Zhao Wangyun (1906-77) co-founded the Chang'an School of Painting in the 1960s with two other ink-brush artists based in Xi'an in Northwestern China. They sought to revive the tradition of Chinese ...

Raul Ruiz’s docu-fiction hybrid, “Socialist Realism,” world premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sept 23.