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...last week the new party line had at least partial approval from the greatest Soviet realist of them all, Stalin's favorite portrait painter and president of the Soviet Academy of Art, Alexander M. Gerasimov, 74, whose heroic, mural-sized painting of Stalin and Marshal Voroshilov on the Kremlin ramparts recently disappeared from the Tretyakov State Art Museum. In a signed three-column article in Sovyetskaya Kultura, Gerasimov publicly confessed some errors of the bad old days: "The cult of the individual has done considerable harm . . . Recollecting certain of my works of the past years I must admit that...
...opening the door a crack to modern art (at least up to 1917) and admitting that "both still lifes and landscapes have every right to develop in Soviet art," Gerasimov also left the door ajar for himself. Privately Gerasimov has been turning out a crop of voluptuous nudes with no social import whatsoever...
...seven Soviet intellectuals who journeyed to Manhattan last month for the Communist-inspired "peace conference" at the Waldorf-Astoria were safely home again. In Moscow's Literary Gazette, Russian Movie Director Sergei Gerasimov unpacked some of his impressions of the trip...
Even more shocking manifestations of capitalist decadence lingered in Traveler Gerasimov's memory. "The naked woman's body, like a national trademark," wrote Gerasimov, "has become the symbol of American commerce. Naked, seminaked, undressing and dressing women fill not only the films but the pages of magazines advertising food, clothing, automobiles, hotels, refrigerators, chewing gum and everything which in the opinion of the businessman would represent the vital interests of the people. The indecency of American advertising is indescribable...
...only good things Gerasimov found during his visit to the U.S. were "the clever, honest and educated Americans we met at the conference." But these, alas, doubtless victimized by the lure of lingerie, were "all characterized by one trait: a bitter, ironical smile...