In the era of socialist realism, modernism was officially a forbidden style, deemed too cosmopolitan, formalistic, and capitalistic. Of course, this is just in theory. Many of the architects working ...

North Korea is a real place that, by dint of enforced isolation, an informational vacuum and the make-believe impact of popular culture, has become a place of modern mythology. A place ruled by a ...

Socialist realism was a third, equally vital turning point that should ... did not seem particularly thrilled by the modern art he saw on that trip. Who cares if their diagnosis was slightly incorrect ...

socialist realism. This workshop is the most recent event in the series “Art and Modernism in Socialist China,” an international cooperative research and publication project launched in 2017 at ...

The ongoing exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, A Revolutionary ... 1912 to 1935 (until the imposition of deadly “Socialist Realism” by the Stalinist bureaucracy), contains ...

The In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s exhibition ... the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and prescriptions of Socialist Realism imposed on the Arts. Many of the artists were ...