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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

WHENEVER A commentator declares that "politics is the art of the possible," I'm on my guard. What I'm being told, I suspect, is to accept apparent present conditions as immutable facts of life ...

Tetiana Zhmurko, Head of Modern Art at NAMU, explains how “As the capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (UkrSS) from 1921 to 1934, Kharkiv was quickly transformed into a refined ...

Bulgaria's Museum of Socialist Art officially opened its doors to visitors Monday. The inauguration ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance ...

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 ...