Category Archives: Socialist Realism

A Nation Rising in Arms

Published originally by New Albania, 1970. Re-published AS IS, for historical purposes 1, by Albanian [...]

10
Jul
The Dictator Visits the Studio (The Letters)

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

30
Jun
The Dictator Visits the Studio (The Albanian Cultural Revolution)

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

29
Jun
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 [...]

28
Jun
The Dictator Visits the Studio (Introduction)

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

27
Jun
Constructing a Dream: Socialist Realism in Albanian Art

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

26
Jun
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 [...]

23
Jun
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 [...]

20
Jun
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 [...]

19
Jun
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 [...]

17
Jun