Angelina Lucento

Journal Article The Russian Review · October 2024 AbstractThis review essay assesses six early Soviet avant‐garde texts that recently were republished by the European University Press in St. Petersburg. These volumes include incredibly exact, high‐resolution reprints of se ... Full text Cite

Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves

Journal Article Russian Review · October 1, 2022 Full text Cite

The NKVD and the Political Origins of Socialist Realism: The Persecution of the Boichukisty in Ukraine

Journal Article Kritika · June 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Painting against Empire: Béla Uitz and the Birth and Fate of Internationalist Socialist Realism

Journal Article Russian Review · October 1, 2020 This manuscript describes the significance of the Hungarian-Soviet artist Béla Uitz's contribution to the definition of Socialist Realism through the development of a style of anti-imperialist painting based on national form that I call Internationalist So ... Full text Cite

Care Outside the Comfort Zone: Maternal aesthetics, Katrin Nenasheva and the new politics of performance art in Russia

Journal Article Performance Research · May 19, 2017 This article situates the politics of Katrin Nenasheva’s contemporary performance practice, which is based on a maternal aesthetics of tactile communication, within the broader, developing history of performance in post-Soviet Russia. First, I present a hi ... Full text Cite

The conflicted origins of Soviet visual media: Painting, photography, and communication in Russia, 1925-1932

Journal Article Cahiers du Monde Russe · November 6, 2015 Full text Cite