The cement nude, the (h)ero(tic)ism
of the working class – the artistic programme
of outdoor sculptures on the Black Sea littoral
and the pro-natal, pro-family policies
under communism
The cement nude, the (h)ero(tic)ism
of the working class – the artistic programme
of outdoor sculptures on the Black Sea littoral
and the pro-natal, pro-family policies
under communism
Author(s): Cosmin NăsuiSubject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: artistic programme; ideology; communism; sculptures; Black Sea Region; pro- natal policies;
Summary/Abstract: Controlled eroticization of the proletariat through pro-natal policies was an al- most unnoticed facet of the programme of iconographic public works displayed in excep- tional locations throughout the newly-built resorts along Romania’s Black Sea shore. Never previously studied on its own merits, this artistic programme of open-air sculptures that begun in the Romanian Popular Republic and continued in the Romanian Socialist Re- public needs to be understood and contextualized, by way of interdisciplinary instruments, against a broader post-Eastern approach that goes beyond the established methodologies of art history.
Journal: Historia Slavorum Occidentis
- Issue Year: 39/2023
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 13-32
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
