Monthly Archives: June 2022

The Dictator Visits the Studio (The Letters)

The Vlora Independence Monument and the Politics of Socialist Albanian Sculpture, 1962–1972 Author: Raino IstoEditor [...]

The Dictator Visits the Studio (The Albanian Cultural Revolution)

The Albanian Cultural Revolution, Monumental Sculpture and Collective Artistic Production Author: Raino IstoEditor In Chief [...]

The Dictator Visits the Studio (Beginnings of a Monument)

The Vlora Independence Monument and the Politics of Socialist Albanian Sculpture, 1962–1972 Author: Raino IstoEditor [...]

The Dictator Visits the Studio (Introduction)

The Vlora Independence Monument and the Politics of Socialist Albanian Sculpture, 1962–1972 Author: Raino IstoEditor [...]

Constructing a Dream: Socialist Realism in Albanian Art

The exhibition focused on Albanian socialist realism through painting, poster and drawings, and it offered [...]

Constructing a Dream: Socialist Realism in Albanian Art, The Works (Part 2)

Shedding light on some of the fifty-year-old history of a Balkan country, Albania, Constructing a [...]

Constructing a Dream: Socialist Realism in Albanian Art, The Works (Part 1)

Socialist realist art and literature must belong to the proletariat and be clearly comprehensible, art [...]

Constructing a Dream: Socialist Realism in Albanian Style (Part 3)

Epilogue“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship [...]

Constructing a Dream: Socialist Realism in Albanian Style (Part 2)

The Structure“Socialist realism boils over, it is in constant and continuous development, since he too [...]

Constructing a Dream: Socialist Realism in Albanian Style (Part 1)

“The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks. And therefore, I [...]