Trupi në pikturën e realizmit socialist: Shprehje fantazish, ankthesh, dëshirash
Body in the painting of socialist realism: Expressions of fantasies, anxieties, desires
Author(s): Sofia KaloSubject(s): Anthropology, Semiotics / Semiology, Visual Arts, History of ideas, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike – Instituti i Antropologjisë Kulturore dhe Studimit të Artit
Keywords: painting; Socialist Realism; the body; ideology; Albania;
Summary/Abstract: This essay analyzes how the human body has been represented in Albanian visual art during state socialism (1944-1991). By referring to specific art works from the period, I argue that artistic representations of the body may be treated as a site for witnessing what the socialist system expected from people and hoped for itself, including its stances on human behavior, the collective, and the individual.
Journal: Antropologji
- Issue Year: 2/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 32-52
- Page Count: 21
- Language: Albanian