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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...reported acidly last week that the curator of the West European art history section of Leningrad's famed Hermitage Museum rose to defend "formalistic distortions and asserted that 'this is buoyant, creative art.' " What's more, the prominent director of the Comedy Theater, Nikolai P. Akimov, "furiously defended the right to unlimited experimentation with form." Painter Leonid A. Tkachenko not only backed up colleagues who were under attack, but "did not give a correct evaluation of criticism directed at himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: From the Second City | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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