Across One Sixth of the World
Dziga Vertov’s Across One Sixth of the World marked the height of the...
Author Archives: hirtzjr16
Stalin and the Muses
Personally, I have a much more heightened interest in the Sots-art...
The Artistic Journey of Aleksandr Deineka
Aleksandr Deineka lived and worked in the early beginnings of the...
Socialist Realism Revisionism and The Blue Space
This is The Blue Space by Arkady Rylov, and this was...
Tatlin and Faktura
This is Vladimir Tatlin’s “Counter-Relief,” one of the prime examples...
What is a Spiral Jetty?
From the way he writes about it, Robert Smithson was a...
A Wave of Activism in Art
Activist art only further blurs the distinction between what is art...
Helms vs. Mapplethorpe for the Undisputed Heavyweight Championship of the American Art Scene
The Jesse Helms theory of art is an interesting one to...
Shoot, the Mass Media, and Undertones of the Vietnam War
Chris Burden ushered in a new era of performance art with...
The (Anti-)Marxist/Communist Propaganda: The Storming of the Winter Palace
The grandest, albeit possibly ideologically destructive, early Soviet mass spectacle is...