socialist realism
socialist realism State policy on the arts, promoted by the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1980s. It asserted that all the arts should appeal to ordinary workers, and should be inspiring and optimistic in spirit. Art that did not fulfill these precepts was effectively banned, and most serious writers, artists and composers were forced underground or into exile.
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In the Party Spirit: socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; In the Party Spirit: Socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet...xviii + 191 pp. 'Socialist realism', observed Czeslaw Milosz in...exposing the darker aspects of socialist realism, which was not just a theory...
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Socialist Realism without Shores
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Evgeny Dobrenko, eds. Socialist Realism without Shores. Durham...devoted to socialist realism in Russia and abroad...high/low, that of socialist realism is Soviet...resemblance" of socialist realism and modernism (p...
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Sale of the century socialist realism wins big on the global art market.
Magazine article from: C: International Contemporary Art; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...s penchant for absurdity, socialist realism now lives a more ordinary existence...prevalent prior to modernism, socialist realism is an art of genre. Off cially...the revolution, and socialist realism was a style that primarily placed...
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Socialist Realism in Louis Aragon's Le Monde reel.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...critical reaction to socialist realism is universally hostile...Kimyongur's Socialist Realism in Louis Aragon's...seeming paradox of a socialist realist novelist fascinated...French brand of socialist realism, the excessive weight...
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Socialist realism in the Australian literary context: with specific reference to the writing of Katharine Susannah Prichard.(Battlers and Stirrers)
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Prichard's commitment to socialist realism. In Exiles at Home...inadequate commentaries on socialist realism in Prichard...development of socialist realism in the USSR. The union...called the method of socialist realism.(5)
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Han Sorya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...follow the principles of socialist realism. The term socialist realism is used here as it was professed...Myers say that he is not a socialist realist? How can Myers say...still advocate socialist realism. Myers simply does not interpret...
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D.C. exhibit chronicles socialist realism
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 6/14/1998; 593 words
; ...The 06-14-1998 D.C. exhibit chronicles socialist realism An exhibit of socialist realism paintings from Ukraine opened at the Georgetown...Ukrainian Embassy noted that while socialist realism painting has been maligned because of its political...
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Socialist realism: from Stalin to Sots. (Joseph Stalin)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 10/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...de vivre. For the beauty of Socialist art is the beauty of the fight...the horror?) of Socialist Realism was that it offered a complete...A true vanguard, Socialist Realism began to crumble well in advance...representation, then Socialist Realism--typically described as...
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Perspectives: Socialist Realism's final days
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 7/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Weekly, The 07-16-2000 PERSPECTIVES: Socialist Realism's final days It was a rainy Saturday morning...they were all in a style called Socialist Realism. Joseph Stalin initiated Socialist Realism in the early 1930s when he decreed that...
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Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Regine Robin's magisterial work on Socialist Realism was substantially written before...essay of 1959, "On Socialist Realism," to which Robin is acknowledgedly...at pains to show that Socialist Realism was not imposed by political command...
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Socialist Realism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
SOCIALIST REALISM On April 23, 1932, the Party Central Committee of the USSR adopted socialist realism (SR) as the official artistic mandate...comply as closely as possible with socialist realism. Here, too, the issue of artistic...
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socialist realism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
socialist realism Soviet artistic and literary doctrine...of Soviet Writers proclaimed socialist realism as compulsory literary practice. As...Stalin, Zhdanov, and Gorky, socialist realism prescribed a generally optimistic picture...
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realism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...of modern life. The term Social Realism has been applied to 19th- and...It is to be distinguished from Socialist Realism , the name given to the officially...the 1950s the term ‘realism’ has also been used...
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Realism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Realism, movement in the theatre at the end of the 19th century which replaced the well-made play...system of Stanislavsky and by the later advocates of naturalism , the logical outcome of realism. (See also SOCIALIST REALISM .)
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Heroic Realism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Heroic Realism. See SOCIALIST REALISM .
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