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Was Socialist Realism Global?

Modernism, Soc-modernism, Socially Engaged Figuration
Series: Museum under Construction
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A wide-ranging examination of Socialist Realism that shows it extended far beyond Eastern Europe. Was Socialist Realism Global? takes up a question that was posed by art historian Piotr Piotrowski in his final book. It offers new perspectives both on socialist realism in a strict sense... Read More
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A wide-ranging examination of Socialist Realism that shows it extended far beyond Eastern Europe.

Was Socialist Realism Global? takes up a question that was posed by art historian Piotr Piotrowski in his final book. It offers new perspectives both on socialist realism in a strict sense and on aspects of politically and socially engaged art of the twentieth century that employed broadly understood figuration.

Contributors to the volume shed light on the genealogy of figuration, relate socialist art and socialist realism from Europe to analogous artistic practices in Latin America and beyond, and more. To date, they argue, the rewriting of the artistic canon of the postcolonial world has failed to sufficiently underscore the fact that through the period of decolonization and Cold War divisions internationally, artists across half the globe were educated according to doctrines of real socialism.

Contributors: Jérôme Bazin, Kate Cowcher, Tatiana Flores, Joanna Kordjak, Partha Mitter, Yevheniia Moliar, Magdalena Moskalewicz, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Agata Pietrasik, Nadia Plungyan, Julia Secklehner, Zheng Shengtian, Mirela Tanta, Chuong-Dai Vo, Anthony Yung, and Carol Yinghua Lu.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788393381838

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 March 2024

Country: Poland

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Edition: Illustrated

Illustration: 55 color plates, 7 halftones

Contributors:

  • Edited by Magda Lipska
  • Edited by Piotr Slodkowski
  • Foreword by Magda Lipska
  • Foreword by Piotr Slodkowski
  • Contributions by Partha Mitter
  • Contributions by Magdalena Moskalewicz
  • Contributions by Julia Sechlehner
  • Contributions by Agata Pietrasik
  • Contributions by Nadya Plungian

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 367g

Pages: 350

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Museum under Construction

About the Author

Magda Lipska is a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Piotr Slodkowski is assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

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