Was socialist realism global? : modernism, soc-modernism, socially engaged figuration /

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Meeting name:	What Are Our Genealogies? Engaged Figurations: Realism, Socialist Realism and Soc-Modernism in a Global Perspective (Conference) (2021 : Online)
Imprint:	[Warsaw] : Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2023. ©2023
Description:	338 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm + 1 art reproduction (10.5 x 15 cm)
Language:	English
Series:	The museum under construction books series ; no 21 Museum under construction ; no. 21.
Subject:	Socialist realism in art -- Congresses. Socialist realism in art -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses. Figurative art -- 20th century -- Congresses. Modernism (Art) -- Congresses.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13507475

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Other authors / contributors:	Lipska, Magda, editor, contributor. Słodkowski, Piotr, editor, contributor. Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, organizer, publisher.
ISBN:	8393381835 9788393381838
Notes:	Contributions documenting a conference, What Are Our Genealogies? Engaged Figurations: Realism, Socialist Realism and Soc-Modernism in a Global Perspective, organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in April and May 2021, held online in five weekly sessions. An additional contribution by Ukrainian art historian Yevheniia Moliar was invited for this book. The accompanying art reproduction (postcard-sized), Alla Gorska, Tree of Life (Дерево Життя), 1967, mosaic, Mariupol, Ukraine (now destroyed), photo: Yevhen Nikiforov, courtesy of Yevheniia Moliar, is related to her contribution. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Was Socialist Realism Global? Modernism, Soc-Modernism, Socially Engaged Figuration seeks 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, demonstrating its continuity, evolution, and transformation in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Soviet Russia prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, reflecting on the ties between politics, nationalism, realism, and modernism. They also relate socialist art and socialist realism from Europe (both Western and Eastern) to analogous artistic practices in China, Ethiopia, Mexico, Vietnam, and beyond."--Page 4 of cover.

Table of Contents:

I. Selected Works
Introduction
Modernism and Its Discontents: Some Reflections on the Vexing Problem of a Center and Its Periphery
III. Essays
Introduction to Section I. Socialist-Realist Cenealogies, Retributions, and Retrospections
Social Realisms, New Aesthetics: Engaged Women Photographers in Interwar Central Europe
Picking Out Paths: A Retrospective View into the 1930s
Frescoes for the Proletariat: Symbolist Influences in Early Soviet Monumental Painting
Introduction to Section II. Toward Socialist Art: Modernism, Socialist Realism, Soc-Modernism
Representing the Awkward Class: Images of Peasants in Socialist Realism
From the Academy to Revolution
Afro-Muralism: Against Black Erasure in Modern Mexican Figurative Painting
Introduction to Section III. Global Socialist Realisms: Reassessing the Models in China and Internationally
Commissioned Modernism: Romania's Recurring Ideologies
All That Clitters Is Not Cold: Genealogies of Realism in Ethiopia and Beyond
Seeking a Chinese Socialist-Realist Art in the 1950s and the 1960s
Introduction to Section IV. Postcommunism: A Condition without a Past?
The Battle of the Dust Jackets: Representing Eastern Europe as Socialist Europe
The Long Shadow: Socialist Realism's Legacy in Contemporary Chinese Art
Inconvenient Cultural Heritage: A Trigger Issue or Ukraine's Gain?
IV. Roundtable Discussion
V. Index
List of works and photo credits

Was socialist realism global? : modernism, soc-modernism, socially engaged figuration /

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