Art Under Stalin

Matthew Cullerne Bown's analysis focuses on the art of the Stalin era, from 1932 to 1953, and includes discussion of the pre- and post‑Stalin years. The author illuminates the political and social framework of the time and provides a research of Stalinist aesthetics, socialist realism in art and neo‑classicism in architecture, the Cult of Personality, art‑world debates, and isolationism.