Socialist Realist Art

Programme

Friday 19 October, Södertörn University

9.00-9.30: Registration

9.30-9.45: Opening address

9.45-11.15 Panel 1: Genesis of the Method (Chair: Evgeny Dobrenko)
Angelina Lucento: No More Passive Spectators! The Role of Socialist Realist Painting in the Development of Collective Politics Jennifer Brewin: The Reds Among Black Shirts: Soviet Participation in the 1932 Venice Biennale Maria Mileeva: Soviet Socialist Realism and the Anti-Formalist Campaign of 1936

11.30-13.00 Panel 2: Photography and Socialist Realism (Chair: Mike O’Mahony)
Vytautas Michelkevicius: Lithuanian School of Photography as a Unified Style Based on Socialist Realism Emily Joyce Evans: The Search for Socialist Realist Photography, 1934 Isabelle De Keghel: Socialist Realism in Soviet Press Photography: Practices of Visualisation in Ogonek

14.15-16.15 Panel 3: Minor genres in Socialist Realism (Chair: Sven Wallenstein)
Loreta Jakonyte: Domestic Relations in Early Soviet Lithuanian Children’s Book Illustrations: Specificity of the Local Socialist Realism Masha Kowell: Political Still Life: The Hybrid Life of Early Post-Stalinist Posters Lars Kleberg: Conservation and Resurrection: Boris Yakovlev’s still life ’Soviet Conserves’ (1939) Susan Reid: Still life and the Vanity of Socialist Realism

16.30-18.00 Round Table: Socialist Realism and Catastrophe Chair and organiser: Irina Sandomirskaja
Participants: Maria Engström, Karin Grelz, Tora Lane

18.15: Assemble for dinner * * *

Saturday 20 October, Moderna Museet

10.00: Coffee

10.15: Opening address Anna Tellgren, Research Leader and Curator of Photography, Moderna Museet

10.30-12.30 Panel 4: The Visual Language of Socialist Realism (Chair: Isabelle De Keghel)
Mike O’Mahony: A Winter’s Tale: Socialist Realism Out in the Cold Robert Bird: Playing the Stalin Consensus: Scale Models in Socialist Realist Cinema and Visual Culture Iina Kohonen: Cosmic Landscapes and the Art of Aleksei Leonov Evgeny Dobrenko: Images of Hatred and Violence in Soviet Wartime Culture

13.45—15.15 Panel 5: Case Studies from Eastern Europe (Chair: Susan Reid)
Katerina Mohar: Socialist Realist Painting in the Former Socialist Republic of Slovenia Jérôme Bazin: Writing a Social History of Socialist Realism: the Case of an East German Art Commission Mirela Tanta: State Propaganda or Sites of Resistance? Socialist Realism in Romania, 1970-89

15.30-17.00 Panel 6: Structures and Organisations of Soviet Art (Chair: Margareta Tillberg)
Iliana Veinberga: Latvian SSR Artists’ Union’s Art Collection: An Era in Paint, Paper and Concrete Zhanara Nauruzbayeva: Responsibility to the People: Outward-Orientated Subjectivity in the Union of Artists in Soviet Kazakhstan Galina Yankovskaya: ’Naive’ and ’Populist’ Soviet Artists within the Institutional Art System of the 1930s-1970s

17.15-18.15 Keynote (Chair: Mark Bassin)
Words of Welcome: Daniel Birnbaum, Director Moderna Museet Introduction: Oliver Johnson Christina Kiaer, Primal Scenes of Socialist Realism: Deineka in the Terror Followed by book presentation, Sven-Olov Wallenstein

18.30: Assemble for dinner