Socialist Realism

Author: Trisha Low
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895596
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better”—someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for one's life comes to the fore—sliding unpredictably between memory, speculation, self-criticism, and art criticism, Low seeks answers that she knows she won't find. Attempting to reconcile her desires with her radical politics, she asks: do our quests to fulfill our deepest wishes propel us forward, or keep us trapped in the rubble of our deteriorating world?

Soviet Socialist Realism

Author: C.Vaughan James
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349020761
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description

Socialist Realist Painting

Author: Matthew Cullerne Bown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300068443
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 506

Book Description
After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, the new government took control of Russian art, nationalizing art collections and laying down the principles that were to govern the creation of new art. Soviet Realism was the result. This book traces the style from its artistic and intellectual origins in 19th-century Russia to its decline at the end of the Soviet period. 184 color and 346 b&w illustrations.

Rethinking Social Realism

Author: Stacy I. Morgan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325798
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
The social realist movement, with its focus on proletarian themes and its strong ties to New Deal programs and leftist politics, has long been considered a depression-era phenomenon that ended with the start of World War II. This study explores how and why African American writers and visual artists sustained an engagement with the themes and aesthetics of social realism into the early cold war-era--far longer than a majority of their white counterparts. Stacy I. Morgan recalls the social realist atmosphere in which certain African American artists and writers were immersed and shows how black social realism served alternately to question the existing order, instill race pride, and build interracial, working-class coalitions. Morgan discusses, among others, such figures as Charles White, John Wilson, Frank Marshall Davis, Willard Motley, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, and Hale Woodruff.

Socialist Realism Without Shores

Author: Thomas Lahusen
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319412
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
Socialist Realism Without Shores also addresses the critical discourse provoked by socialist realism - Stalinist aesthetics; "anthropological" readings; ideology critique and censorship; and the sublimely ironic approaches adapted from sots art, the Soviet version of postmodernism.

Political Economy of Socialist Realism

Author: Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300122802
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Bringing together the Soviet historical experience and Stalin-era art in novels, films, poems, songs, painting, photography, architecture and advertising, Dobrenko examines Stalinism's representational strategies and demonstrates how real socialism was begotten of Socialist Realism.

Drawing from Life

Author: Christine I. Ho
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520309626
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People’s Republic of China (1949–1965) in order to discover how artists created a national form of socialist realism. Tracing the development of seminal works by the major painters Xu Beihong, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Li Xiongcai, Dong Xiwen, and Fu Baoshi, author Christine I. Ho reconstructs how artists grappled with the representational politics of a nascent socialist art. The divergent approaches, styles, and genres presented in this study reveal an art world that is both heterogeneous and cosmopolitan. Through a history of artistic practices in pursuit of Maoist cultural ambitions—to forge new registers of experience, new structures of feeling, and new aesthetic communities—this original book argues that socialist Chinese art presents a critical, alternative vision for global modernism.

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin

Author: Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783086998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 569

Book Description
Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures' is the first published work to offer a variety of alternative perspectives on the literary and cultural Sovietization of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II and emphasize the dialogic relationship between the ‘centre’ and the ‘satellites’ instead of the traditional top-down approach. The introduction of the Soviet cultural model was not quite the smooth endeavour that it was made to look in retrospect; rather, it was always a work in progress, often born out of a give-andtake with the local authorities, intellectuals and interest groups. Relying on archival resources, the authors examine one of the most controversial attempts at a cultural unification in Europe by providing an overview with a focus on specific case-studies, an analysis of distinct particularities with attention to the patterns of negotiation and adaptation that were being developed in the process.

Art Under Socialist Realism

Author: Gleb Prokhorov
Publisher: Craftsman House (AU)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
Socialist Realism appeared in order to proceed towards what was then conceived as a bright new future - the Communist paradise on earth.

Realism and Social Science

Author: R. Andrew Sayer
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761961246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Realism and Social Science offers an authoritative guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. It is illustrated throughout with relevant and accessible examples.