Ky artikull shqyrton debatet artistike mbi kulturën popullore dhe realizmin socialist, që u zhvilluan në Shqipërinë e socializmit shtetëror të viteve 1970. Artikulli fillon me fjalimin famëkeq të diktatorit Enver Hoxha në Plenumin e Katërt dhe eksploron ndikimin e tij mbi artet pamore dhe kulturën m…

Shumë pak dihet jashtë kufijve për kinemanë shqiptare dhe karakteristikat e saj, për shkak të mosnjohjes së gjuhës shqipe nga studiues të huaj, botimeve të pakta në gjuhën angleze dhe qasjes së kufizuar në filma me titra anglisht, ndërkohë që shumë prej kineastëve të epokës post-komuniste që janë vl…

In the history of Albanian Socialist Realist art, the period spanning from the 1960s to 1973 is known as a relatively fervent period in terms of creative freedom, especially in comparison to the period following 1973. For visual artists, experimentation with modernist modes of expression and innovat…

Consulting the most recent publication on the history of Albanian theater, we find the term partisan theater used to describe a practice that precedes the emergence of professional Albanian theater. It is surprising that (even today) such a minor theatrical phenomenon, which appeared in the years 19…

The Calendars were one of the elements included in the first exhibition of Diaries: LindArt & the Albanian Women Artists Association. The exhibition opened in 2022, after I had spent the previous few years trying to dig into the work of the Linda association, the first and only association of women …

Based mainly on Albanian primary sources, this article is a comparative analysis of the Ideological and Cultural Revolution in communist Albania in the mid 1960s. The article emphasizes the importance that the regime placed on the historical tradition of mass mobilizations accumulated in other commu…

This article explores the reactions to and critical discussions surrounding exhibitions in the first few years of the 1970s, primarily focusing on the 1971 National Figurative Arts Exhibition and the Pranvera exhibition of 1972. It looks closely at the responses of artists to the developments taking…

Ky numër i revistës Studime për artin merret me temën e fillesave dhe specifikisht me tri pika kyçe në historinë moderne e bashkëkohore të Shqipërisë, që u hapën rrugë fillimeve të reja (qofshin këto “të mira”, “të këqija”, apo të rreme – dhe gjithçka e ndërmjetme): Lufta Antifashiste Nacional-Çliri…

Where did Socialist Realism come from, and what was it, really? Was it a style, a movement, or something else entirely—a “method”, as its proponents so often characterized it? How did it relate to modernism, that similarly ambiguous phenomenon that dominated so much of cultural discourse—in the West…

Today’s debates on archival practices, especially in the era of widespread digitalization, are focused on theories and practices aimed at making archives more accessible for all. Archiving today speaks to new dynamics. Theater archiving in particular brings its own specific problems, problems that d…

The advent of the coronavirus pandemic seems to have sparked a surge in archival-minded exhibitions in museums (and other kinds of art spaces) the world over, which was noticeable especially in the aftermath of the first wave of the pandemic during the summer of 2020. Many of these shows have been p…

This article aims to bring to light the particularly fortuitous fact that a large portion of Kolë Idromeno’s photographic oeuvre is housed in the physical archive of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and the Study of Art (IAKSA). This information has perhaps not become as widely known as it sho…