Viktor Popkov, 9785895804308
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2024. Sewn cl. Eleven museums and six private collections contributed paintings to this retrospective exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on a major artist of the last few decades of the Soviet period. He painted most of these works from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, when he was killed in an accident at age 42. Popkov often depicts everyday scenes at home, at work or on the farm, and his style is realistic. Some of the works fit well into the framework of Socialist Realism; some have a perplexed or anxious tone of one questioning his society — the Soviet Union in the Krushchev and Brezhnev years. Section headings: the painter of existence; "struggling with oneself, struggling with happiness, struggling for happiness"; the artist as an imaginary figure and the crisis of identity; To see the world a little more vividly: the drawings of Viktor Popkov. 323 p., 32 cm, approx. 300 color illus., Rus. with list of illustrations and summary in ENGLISH. Item #4818
ISBN: 9785895804308
Price: $165.00