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The Chairman Smiles
Political art from China, Cuba and the USSR consisting of 145 posters in digitalized form.
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/
The Communist @ KidPuppet.com
Site devoted to the bitter communist, puppet lover. Crazy history lessons, insane stories of puppets, war, and friendship.
http://www.kidpuppet.com/communist/
Socialist Realism
Research of Dr. Reuben Fowkes into the theory and practice of Socialist Realism in the Eastern Bloc.
http://www.reubenfowkes.net/thesis/sociali...
Driving Mrs. Mao's car
Cruising the Chinese capital by Red Flag stretch limo is the ultimate in Commie kitsch, according to reporter Ron Gluckman
http://www.gluckman.com/RedCapital.html
Propaganda Art
Site from Stanford containing a number of examples of Soviet art and propaganda, particularly from the Stalin era.
http://www.stanford.edu/~gfreidin/courses/...
What is Socialist realism ?
Socialist Realism was an ideology enforced by the Soviet state as the official standard for art. The paintings had to be idealisations of the political leaders, such as Lenin and Stalin, and of the communistic ideas. Site contains examples.
http://members.surfeu.at/horvath/realism.h...
Prairie Fire
Essay on pathbreaking Maoist punk band.
http://eserver.org/bs/56/callahan.html
Art Politic : Knowledge = Power
A group of artists who have come together in order to bring to light social and political issues that they have deemed important.
http://www.artpolitic.org
Eisenstein
An appreciation of the life and work of Soviet film maker Sergei Eisenstein.
http://www.wsws.org/arts/1998/feb1998/eise...
Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture
Internet companion to the exhibit Picturing Power--Art and Propaganda in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution at the Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg.
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/conf/pro...
Anti-Soviet Art
Reproductions from the Norton Dodge Collection.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senat...
Virtual Museum of Political Art
Artworks from a private collection, one part in the style of totalitarian art, e.g. Socialist Realism, another part with critical associations by means of modern art, mainly paintings and drawings by the Austrian artist Werner Horvath in the style of New Constructivism.
http://www.medicalnet.at/horvath/museum.ht...
Art for the Masses
A selection of Soviet posters from 1920 - 1945.
http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/ht...
Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
Productions from 1949 until the present day.
http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger
Critical Eye - Political Art and Visual Commentary by Sol Robbins
Political art illustrating political, social and urban issues with descriptive text.
http://www.criticaleye.org
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2006