The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts
Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes
“Lead, zinc, copper, coal, gold, cadmium, silver, oil, tungsten, corundum, gasoline, nickel, marble, Glauber's salt [and] phosphorites” flow from Kazakhstan through the “full arteries of...
Mega-Dams in the Hydrologics of the Socialist Anthropocene
Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes
This article considers artworks that recorded the construction of four mega dams in Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberia between the 1930s and 1960s,...
“Turksib Was Not Just a Railroad for Me”: Visualizing the Anthropocene as a Transit
Anel Rakhimzhanova
This article examines the Turkestan-Siberia Railroad (Turksib) through its visual culture, exploring how film, painting, and print media portrayed its role in reshaping the Kazakh...
The Avant-Garde of Socialism in the Prehistoric Jungle: The Temporalities of Coal Mining in 1950s Upper Silesia
Jakub Gawkowski
Abstract
This article examines the temporal narratives embedded in the artistic representations of coal mining in post-war Poland, specifically focusing on the 1950s Upper...Chimneys and Electric Wires Conquering the Sky: The Great Transformation of Nature in Socialist Albania
Dimitra Gkitsa
This article examines how socialist realist paintings in Albania depict the transformation of nature during the country's path to industrialization, revealing both the ideological aspirations...
Decolonial and Anthropocene Discourses in Contemporary Art of Former Socialist Contexts
Dilda Ramazan
This review essay focuses on recent publications that examine the art of former Soviet territories – the book Beginning in the Middle: Conversations on...
The Missing Mountain *
Anca Benera, Arnold Estefán
An entire mountain vanished in the 1950s in the Western Carpathians of Romania. Its uranium-rich rocks were transported by train to be processed into nuclear...
Sublimating Socialist Construction Through Ink: Introduction to “When Thoughts Change, Brush and Ink Cannot Remain Unchanged”
Mia Yu
“When Thoughts Change, Brush and Ink Cannot Remain Unchanged” is an open letter by renowned ink painter Fu Baoshi after his 1960 sketching tour organized...
When Thoughts Change, Brush and Ink Cannot Remain Unchanged
Fu Baoshi
An open letter by renowned ink painter Fu Baoshi after his 1960 sketching tour organized by the Jiangsu Chinese Painting Academy....
