Was Socialist Realism Global?: Modernism, Soc-modernism, Socially Engaged Figuration

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 sociali...