Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture ...

Expressing the life and cause of the masses : ideologies and institutions -- Articulating history to the radical present : murals -- Chronicling the contemporary crisis : graphic art -- Forging a ...

After years on the margins, realism is reasserting itself - not as nostalgia, but as a rigorous language for today’s social ...