Soviet socialist realist art is often maligned. But there is much to celebrate in this style of art, writes Alison Carroll. Here are her top picks from our own region.

Mar 18, 2021 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 18-03-2021 18:30 18-03-2021 20:00 America/Toronto Art Talk: “Muralism”, “Indigenism”, and Social Realism: Pride and Prejudice This month ...

Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture ...

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 ...

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 ...

Object Details Author Morgan, Stacy I. 1970- Contents Expressing the life and cause of the masses : ideologies and institutions -- Articulating history to the radical present : murals -- Chronicling ...

Jun 17, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Add to Calendar 17-06-2021 12:00 17-06-2021 13:00 America/Toronto Art Talk: “Muralism”, “Indigenism”, and Social Realism: Pride and Prejudice This month ...