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Christina Kiaer’s stunning new book Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2024) has just been published. According to the cover blurb, “Kiaer traces Deineka’s path from his avant-garde origins as the inventor of the proletarian body in illustrations for mass magazines after the revolution through his success as a state-sponsored painter of monumental, lyrical canvases during the Terror and beyond. In so doing, she demonstrates that Socialist Realism is best understood not as a totalitarian style but as a fiercely collective art system that organized art outside the market and formed part of the legacy of the revolutionary modernisms of the 1920s.” We congratulate Kiaer on her achievement and celebrate it by highlighting some of our own Deineka holdings here. For a full overview of works by Deineka in the collection, please click here.
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