Vremia nadezd, vremia illiuzii, 1950–1960-e gody: problemy istorii sovetskogo neofitsial'nogo iskusstva (Time of hope, time of illusions, 1950s–60s: preambles in the history of Soviet unofficial art) 9785444807323
Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018. sewn cl. Interviewing artists, museum leaders, and others central to artistic life such as Irina Antonova, Erik Bulatov, Pavel Nikonov, Oskar Rabin, Oleg Tselkov, and Vladimir Iankilevskii, Kizeval'ter uses first sources to let readers infer what was going on in the Russian / Soviet art world during the post-Stalinist period, what was opening up, and what was clamping down. He also chronicles exhibitions and compiles a bibliography on Soviet art from sources in the USSR and the West. The result is a compass by which we can get our bearings at a critical period when a loosening of constraints led to many forms of new art. However, unconventional artists still had to exhibit in private places and apart from the Artists Union, a Soviet bureaucratic institution of control, and only in rare cases in prominent public places such as the exhibition of 1963 that Khrushchev infamously broke up. The tension between dissident, unsanctioned, or experimental art and that supported publicly by the chief patron, the state, makes the book a revealing source not only on artistic life but also on political and social aspects of the Soviet system. 554 p., 20 cm, approx. 60 b/w illus., Rus. Item #2763
ISBN: 9785444807323
Selected chapter titles: Museums Were a Special Case; The West Helped Us; Even If It's Allowed Today, Tomorrow It May Be Forbidden; We Found the Loopholes of the System; We Opened a Window to the World; There Was No Thaw to Believe In; Left Artists and Authority; Heroes of the 1950s and 60s.
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