From the Editors
This issue of ARTMargins presents texts that navigate past and present confrontations with instances of entrenched political power. In some cases, these navigations reflect the...
The Decolonial Contradiction: German Proscription and the Necessities of Refusal
In response to efforts to broaden the bounds of Holocaust and genocide memory, German institutions have been pushed to contend with the country’s history of...
Socialist Realism: Foundations and in Flux
In 1988, at the X. Congress of the Art Association of the German Democratic Republic, the last before the collapse of the state, a chorus...
Time after Time: Temporalities of a Socialist Realism in a Former East Berlin Neighborhood
Following the Second World War, German cities would be transformed by urban planning mandates that sought to create a new East German identity through public...
MANIFESTO: Five-Year Plan (2021–2025)
Albania has not invented a great historical narrative, unlike many of its neighbors. Here, the conditions of modernity are still able to open up different...
Figurative in Form, Political in Content: On Recent Reassessments of Global Socialist Realism
This review examines the stakes and methods of studying Socialist Realism within the context of a horizontal global art history, as laid out in Was...
From “Moorishness” to Uzbek Socialist Realist Architecture: An Introduction to “25 Years of Creative Work of Soviet Architects of Uzbekistan” 1
This article examines Boris Zasypkin’s unpublished 1946 manuscript 25 Years of Creative Work of Soviet Architects of Uzbekistan to reassess Socialist Realism in Soviet architecture....
25 Years of Creative Work of Soviet Architects of Uzbekistan
This article examines Boris Zasypkin’s unpublished 1946 manuscript 25 Years of Creative Work of Soviet Architects of Uzbekistan to reassess Socialist Realism in Soviet architecture....
