Issak Kushnir, Anatolii Basin

Nashi nishi: Gazanevshchina 3 (Our niches: Gazanevshchina [Artists participating in the I. I. Gaz House of Culture exhibitions])

St. Petersburg: Avangard na Neve / DEAN, 2015. The last decades of the Soviet period saw a schism among artists: some were content with their academic training, membership in the Union of Artists, and ability to exhibit and receive commissions from the state; others insisted on experimenting in ways the Soviet authorities could not brook and had to settle with small audiences in private apartment shows. This changed in the 1970s, when hitherto underground artists managed to exhibit their work in public for the first time at auditoriums and halls within so-called Houses of Culture (Doma kul'tury). The most famous was Dom kul'tury I. I. Gaza, and its name provides the title of this book. Compiled here are written and visual documents of that age such as photographs of artists and their studios; long lines for exhibitions at the Houses of Culture (Dom kul'tury) when Soviet underground art was first exhibited; portraits of the artists and their circles; poetry about the artists and in the spirit of their taboo art. 285 p., 22 cm, approx. 150 b/w illus., Rus. Series: Avant-Garde on the Neva (Avangard na Neve). Item #2624
ISBN: 9785936309113

Price: $58.00