Author: Bown, Matthew Cullerne
Title: Socialist Realist Painting
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1998). orig. cloth. 29x24cm, xviii,506 pp. Weighs 2800 grams.. Textual illustrations.. Corner bumped. A 2cm tear to front exterior hinge. Good. ¶ Following the 1917 revolution, Socialist Realism became the mainstream art movement in Russia. This book traces this style from its artistic and intellectual origins in 19th-century Russia through its flowering in the middle of the 20th century, to its decline with the end of the Soviet regime." - publisher's description.

Keywords: Russian Art History, Soviet Union, Socialist Realism, Communism, Communist, Painting, , ,