Word: leningraders
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...been painfully slow in coming. In the 1930s, the Soviet state made him a nonperson for being "hostile to socialism." Marginalized, his work banned, he died in December 1941, at the age of 58, along with more than 800,000 other victims who starved during the Nazi siege of Leningrad; his faded artistic prominence was enough to secure him no more than a grave of his own. His works resurfaced only under Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika reform when in 1988 the State Russian Museum in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) mounted an exhibition of Filonov's extraordinary pictures - sometimes dark...
...Those extremes reflect his own life. In the relatively free and wildly fertile 1920s, Filonov's reputation and artistic authority grew rapidly. He started lecturing and publishing theoretical works, and in 1925 he launched the Analytical Art School in Leningrad. Under Filonov's guidance, some of his students presented an exhibition of analytical art in April 1927, and designed sets and costumes for a Leningrad performance of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General...
...pitted with holes from flying shrapnel and machine gun bullets. The village will take months if not years to rebuild, but for these stoical residents, the pride of driving away the most powerful army in the Middle East takes precedence over more immediate concerns. "Yes, it looks like Leningrad," concedes Sameeh Srour, 53, a policeman,> "but we brought the Israelis to their knees...
...term outsider art could have been invented for Eduard Bersudsky. In 1958, as a bored Jewish student in Leningrad, his flippant offer to do his work placement "as far away as possible" earned him a lesson on how far that could be in the Soviet Union: a coal mine in Russia's Arctic north and an army call-up. A stammerer since childhood, Bersudsky was bullied by his colleagues, and he finally stopped speaking entirely...
...Sharmanka gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, Bersudsky now exhibits 3-D expressions of his inner torments and the life he led as an artistic outcast after his return to Leningrad in 1961. He began carving wood and tinkering with junk and in 1967 produced his first kinetic sculpture of a barrel-organ grinder. "When he saw how it moved, he could never stop making them again," says Tatyana Jakovskaya, Bersudsky's wife, who met the artist in 1988 when he was still living in Leningrad, in a single room crammed with his sad, mad and satirical moving sculptures. Among them...