A Second Life for Socialist Realism
Why museums throughout the former Eastern Bloc are rethinking the long-despised art of Soviet Communism
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Socialist Realism
Charles White
Counterfactuals are back in fashion. The election of Donald Trump catapulted sales of Philip Roth's novel The Plot Against America (2004), which describes what might have occurred if Charles…
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Socialist Realism’s Russian Renaissance
Champions of Socialist Realism are seeking to restore it to what they see as its rightful place in Russian art history. But even as it attracts billionaire collectors and appears in prominent…
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Blast from the Past
Artists around the globe are turning Socialist Realism on its head, layering the once-potent tool of propaganda with irony and nostalgia.
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Sex, Money, Glamour, Tractors
Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov are charting new terrain by using the language of Socialist Realism to comment on contemporary Russia.
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From the Archives: Baselitz, Straight Up
In a traveling retrospective that includes both his paintings and his totemic sculptures, Georg Baselitz is seen as an artist who has voraciously consumed—and altered—Western figurative styles from…
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