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From:    "Oana Tanase" <tnsoana at yahoo.com>
Date:    Fri, September 21, 2012 2:47 pm
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Socialist Realist Art:
Production, Consumption and the Aesthetics of Power
														19-20 October 2012

An International Conference sponsored by the Center for Baltic and
East European Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm, in collaboration
 with the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm


Keynote Speakers are: Boris Groys (New York University) and Christina
Kiaer (Northwestern University)

Since the early 1990s, there has been a striking growth of interest
in the legacy of Soviet Socialist Realist art, which has reshaped our
understanding of it in fundamental ways. A substantial body of research
has demonstrated that the method of Socialist Realism was a highly
creative and diversified cultural arena that was both heterogeneous in
its pictorial strategies and often conflicted and ambivalent in its
representations of the social and political messages of the day. Yet the
 label 'totalitarian' continues to influence the ways in which Soviet
art is interpreted and contextualised, limiting our understanding of
Socialist Realism and obstructing its integration into a broader
narrative of twentieth-century art.

In the proposed conference we seek to examine the interests and
influences which contributed to the development of Socialist Realism as a
 diverse and contested field of art from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Participants will be invited to focus on aspects of Socialist Realist
fine art production, evaluation and consumption in order to consider the
 ways in which artistic conventions of pictorial representation were
established, adapted and transformed to reflect the changing nature of
the Soviet project. This approach will facilitate a shift away from the
tendency to draw conclusions about Socialist Realism based on a limited
number of canonical works of art and acclaimed artists, and will
encourage a reappraisal of the diversity and originality of creative
output in its formal, stylistic and geographical variations.


Please download provisional program (also attached):
 Socialist Realist Art - provisional program.pdf

Contacts
For general questions and further information, please contact Mark Bassin,
mark.bassin at sh.se
Web link:
http://webappo.web.sh.se/p3/ext/content.nsf/aget?openagent&key=socialist_realist_art_production_consumption_aesthetics_1330940929642


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