Sentences with phrase «for socialist realism»

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As much as any Israeli novelist of his generation, Amos Oz is responsible for liberating his country's fiction from the heavy hand of politically driven «socialist realism.»

Socialist Realism extends to other art forms but was officially adopted by the Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934 and codified the state's expectations for writers.

While Lenin was relatively accepting towards writers and other artists who strayed from explicit or even implicit communist material, Stalin was... well, Stalin, and socialist realism dominated the cultural landscape for over forty years.

Richter redefined the terms of contemporary painting as he looked to photography for a way to release painting from the political and symbolic burdens of Socialist Realism and Abstract Expressionism.

Together they coined the term «capitalist realism» for their work, a West German foil to the style of Socialist Realism in threalism» for their work, a West German foil to the style of Socialist Realism in thRealism in the East.

Often used for explicitly political or even propagandistic purposes, such as the socialist realism used to prop up the Communist leaders of the Soviet Union, or Shepard Fairey's ubiquitous...

Fiks has produced many projects on the subject of the Post-Soviet dialog in the West, among them: «Ayn Rand in Illustration,» a series of drawing pairing descriptive text from Atlas Shrugged with uncannily complimentary Soviet Socialist Realism classic artworks; «Lenin for Your Library?»

In searching for alternatives to Socialist Realism and Art Informel, he became interested in anamorphosis and in the art of the mentally ill.

«These are masterpieces of world art and not just banknotes that are printed every day,» said Russian billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov, who owns about 150 works of Socialist Realism and last month paid $ 46.5 million for an Abstract Expressionist painting by Mark Rothko.