You may also want to look at Igor Golomshtok's Totalitarian Art which
addresses both Soviet and Chinese art. The
Zimmerli Art Gallery at Rutgers University which houses a significant
collection of Nonconformist Art form the Soviet union may be able to
provide you with more leads. (908)932-7237.  Alla Rosenfeld is the Curator
of the collection.


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Cindy Schartman
George Washington University
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On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Peter van Mensch wrote:

> At 18:13 13-11-96 GMT, Gregory Klages wrote:
> >Does anyone know any really good texts, websites, whatever, where I might
> >access information regardign the development of Socreal and Soviet
> >propaganda leading up to and during the Secopnd World War?
>
> About what my czech friends used to call 'sorella' (socialist realist art)
> some good publications have been written. The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
> (UK) made a nice exhibition in 1992 which I visited later in Brussels and in
> Rotterdam. Its catalogue might still be available: "Soviet Socialist Realist
> Painting. 1930s-1960s" (ISBN 0 9058 36 76 6). The curators of the exhibition
> have written useful books: for example M. Cullerne Brown, Art under Stalin
> (Oxford 1991); M. Cullerne Brown & B. Taylor eds., Art of the Soviets
> (Manchester 1992); D. Elliott, New Worlds: Russian Art and Society 1900-37
> (London 1986). See also: C.V.James, Soviet Socialist Realism, Origins and
> Theory (London 1973).
>
> In Berlin (Martin Gropius Bau) last year a great exhibion was organized
> about the parallel between art and cultural policy in Germany and the Soviet
> Union: "Berlin-Moskau/Moskva-Berlin 1900-1950" . A beautiful catalogue (only
> in German as far as I know) was edited by Olrina Antonowa and Joern Merkert.
>
> Dr Peter van Mensch
> senior lecturer of theoretical museology and museum ethics
> Reinwardt Academie
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> 1093 Amsterdam
> (the Netherlands)
>
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