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Painting versus photography : a battle of mediums in twentieth-century Russian culture / Konstantin Akinsha -- Soviet policy on photography / Elena Barkhatova -- The force of the medium : the Soviet ...

Jordan Peterson has explained the "comical" reasoning why he decided to cover the walls of his home with Soviet art. While appearing on the The Glenn Beck Program podcast, which aired Saturday, the ...

The rebellious artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid founded their own artistic movement. They agreed to their first interview together in 20 years. By Sophia Kishkovsky This article is part of ...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Art Canons and the Cold War -- Part One: Painting by Marxism: American Art in Soviet Reflection -- Chapter 1 The Ugly Shapes of ...

When the Art Institute of Chicago mounted an exhibition of Soviet revolutionary art two years ago, local philanthropists helped fund it: Caryn and King Harris and the Harris Family Foundation; ...

Artists in the Soviet Union operated in a strange, wary time after the death of dictator Josef Stalin in 1953. Personal expression was forbidden and they were under nearly constant surveillance by KGB ...

The revival of the famous arts and crafts factories of pre-war Russia is apparently contemplated by the Soviet Government. Futurist and cubist ornamentation will be encouraged, perhaps as part of the ...

The freezing half-mile walk from my hotel to the Walker Art Center on an early December morning here was a bit dreary and difficult, given that the park between me and the museum was basically one ...

Histories that belong to groups that have been institutionally and systematically rendered invisible require thoughtful retrieval to be shared. Through his photography, artist Yevgeniy Fiks draws ...