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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