
By:
Nina Pancheva-Kirkova
Constructing New Identities: Images of Socialist Realism and Contemporary Fine Art in Post-Communist Bulgaria
Abstract:
The fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria witnessed the end of a grand recit, a metanarrative (Lyotard, 1984) that claimed total knowledge of human history, politics and economy. Socialist Realism, as an aesthetic that supposedly embodies this metanarrative, articulated its pretension as the authentic art form that ...