Słowacka sorela. Globalność a lokalność realizmu socjalistycznego
Slovak Sorela. Globality versus Locality of Socialist Realism

Summary/Abstract: The paper is dedicated to Slovak Socialist Realism, colloquially called Sorela. The actual topic is the relations between the unifying tendency imposed by Soviet Union theoreticians and its local Slovak version. Furthermore, the question is asked about the status of Slovak art in the Czechoslovak artistic life monopolized by the regime authorities. In the paper the presence of Slovak art in state-wide exhibitions is discussed (including the peculiar ‘Artistic Harvest’ cycle), and so are the results of state commissions and important national/Slovak shows. Furthermore, the distinctness visible in stylistic and thematic topoi is pointed to. The most important idiom and identity element is found in the topic of the Slovak National Uprising, at the same time complying with the most important criteria of Socialist Realism. Slovak Socialist Realism proves to have been a non-homogenous tendency, containing both references to Soviet models (Medvecká, Belan, Èemický), and unconventional images, drawing either from the local tradition (Benka), or Modernism (Guderna).

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