Towards New Frameworks for Albanian Art History? Ermir Hoxha’s Socialist Realism in the Albanian Style
Ermir Hoxha, Socialist Realism in the Albanian Style: The Liberalization Period and the Communist Legacy in Contemporary Albanian Art. Tirana: West Print, 2023. 180 pp.
Ermir Hoxha’s Socialist Realism in the Albanian Style suggests an intriguing question: are there productive art historical connections between the so-called “liberalization period” (the late 1960s through 1973) in Albanian art and the ways that contemporary artists have looked back on Albanian Socialist Realism in the decades following the end of state socialism in the country in 1991? Hoxha, a professor at the University of Arts in Tirana, has made an undeniable contribution to … Read more
