Soviet socialist realist art is found in the Asia-Pacific region too. Here are ten classics to look out for
- Written by Alison Carroll, Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
Joseph Stalin was no great lover of the arts, unlike other Communist leaders, but he recognised their power to stir his people’s souls in the pursuit of his political goals.
Stalin and the writer Maxim Gorky are both credited with defining, in 1934, the new style that would encourage this. Socialist Realism: art socialist in content and...





