Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific, Routledge, New York and Abingdon, Oxon., 2025
Routledge Research in Art and Politics, 230 pp, 70 images.
https://www.routledge.com/Soviet-Socialist-Realism-and-Art-in-the-Asia-Pacific/Carroll/p/book/9781032661308?
Review, Nora Taylor: Review: Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, vol, 9, number 2, October 2025, 193-8.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/43/article/978924
“The strength of the book lies in the extension of its chronological and geographic scope to include both communist and non-communist countries… [with a focus] on the effect that Socialist Realism had on art in the region…[challenging] our understanding of East-West networks and the very nature of influence in a post-colonial and global art world.”
Carroll gives Socialist Realism “the critical art historical attention that it deserves.”
Essay in Books and Ideas section, The Conversation, November 2024
‘Soviet socialist realist art is found in the Asia-Pacific region too. Here
are ten classics to look out for.’
Image: Henk Nangtung (1921-91) and Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016) Indonesia.
Welcome Monument, 1962, bronze, 6 metres high. Jalan Thamrin, Jakarta. Photo:
Donation from Edhi Sunarso Family, IVAA Collection
as of March 2026, 5000 readers
Essay in The Asian Art Newspaper, London, December 2024
‘Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific’
The Newspaper for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries, December 2024, pp 8-9 https://asianartnewspaper.com/
‘The East is Red? Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific’, Lecture, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 17 January 2025
Lecture, ‘Changing the World? Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific’, Art History and Curatorship, University of Melbourne, 3 April 2025; University of Melbourne/The Australasian Network for Asian Art and Asialink Arts & Culture.
Editorial and essay, ‘Art and Politics’, TAASA Review, Vol 34, no. 2, June 2025. Editorial: ‘Art and Politics’, p. 3, and ‘Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific’, 4-6.
https://www.taasa.org.au/taasa-review/june-2025/
Essay, ‘“Changing the World”? Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific’, IIAS Newsletter, Leiden, 101, Winter, 2025, 6-7
https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/changing-world-socialist-realism-and-art-asia-pacific
Lecture, ‘The East is Red? Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific’ Perspectives: Asia, Griffith Asia Institute and QAGOMA, Brisbane, 26 February 2026
https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/event/perspectives-asia-2026-02-26