Description:
This talk examines the making of Vera Mukhina鈥檚 monumental steel sculpture The Worker and Collective Farm Woman (1937), an icon of socialist realism and textbook 鈥渂ad object鈥� of interwar modernism. In the collective and often speculative labor of its construction, and the challenges posed by its scale and materiality, this surprisingly delicate statue strained the limits of its medium and the human body, laying bare the pressures of reproduction both sculptural and political.
(University of California, Berkeley)
Event organised by the Department of History of Art and the Slavonic Studies Section.
Date:
Monday, 26 May 2025 - 5:30pm
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Event location:
Lecture Room 2, Department of Art History, Scroope Terrace
