The decision is a significant blow against the efforts of the pro-Zionist Labor government and the Liberal-National ...

When we think of Soviet art many of us conjure up heroic images of communist leaders and selfless peasant workers. These types of paintings are part of the Socialist realism movement started by ...

The international conference Socialist Internationalism and the Global Contemporary explores a possible alternative beginning of Global Art History and World Art Studies: methodologies that set a ...

This North Korean Art Is More Than Propaganda. Socialist Realism isn’t just pictures of happy workers and brave soldiers. By Gabe Bullard. July 20, 2016 ...

The huge poster in Dresden’s Unity Square last week was bright red with a blaring message: WE WELCOME THE FIRST SOCIALIST ART EXHIBIT. Inside an immense gallery, East Germany’s Communists had ...

One evening, in the late 1970s at the Arts Council in Karachi, this reviewer was privileged to see an exhibition of graphic art from Poland. To say that he was impressed would be a gross ...

The art form that became the singular artistic expression of communism took its roots in the mid-nineteenth century, aiming to establish art as a manual for (socialist revolutionary) life. Tetiana ...

The Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia exhibits some 77 sculptures, 60 paintings and 25 smaller plastic art works created between 1945 and 1989 by the most renowned sculptors and painters of the time.

Socialist Art From China, Remade in Michigan. The artist Wang Qingsong has re-staged a 1959 artwork called “The Bloody Clothes” in Highland Park, a small city within Detroit.

In fact, in the words of Aleksandr Gerasimov, it refers to any painting or sculpture that is realistic in form and socialist in content. The term Russian Art, introduced during the late 1920s and ...