Word: libermanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bear all the expenses for installing it, maintenance, and the rest. It's a gift to New York. It may tend to break down the walls of the museum- I hope." Four weeks ago, the first show at Hammarskjold Plaza opened with seven giant constructions by Alexander Liberman. It was an intelligent choice: Liberman's buoyant sculptures, with their red-lacquered steel surfaces laid like skin over space, changed the street into a visual event...
...birds in the flock," Art Critic Thomas B. Hess recently observed, "Liberman is the rarest." It is a rare bird indeed that he resembles: the eye's moist, inquisitive glitter; the sharp ruffle of conversational feathers; the exact poise...
Peculiar Touch. Considering the scale and bulk of his work, it is a trifle startling to see Liberman in his studio among the woods of Warren, Conn.; by what power does this wrenlike Russian contrive to lug about and assemble immense steel objects, which run to 25 ft. in height and several tons in weight? The prosaic answer is that he has an assistant, hoists and a crane; but the preservation of Liberman's peculiar touch on such a scale is impressive. Where, for instance, did he get the great squashed cylinder that went into Ascent, 1970 (opposite)! "Well...
...early 1960s, Kharkov University Professor Yevsei Liberman argued that profit, not production quotas, should be considered the key index of efficiency and that a degree of local managerial autonomy should be permitted. For a brief period, Brezhnev & Co. went along with his ideas. As British Sovietologist Leonard Schapiro notes, "Communist regimes are always willing to yield to economic reform if it will stop the people from demanding political reform. [But] you can't reform an economic system without reforming it politically as well." Brezhnev soon concluded that Libermanism might ultimately lead to liberalism, or something equally loathsome, and the reforms...
While many Eastern European countries are gradually giving managers more power and encouraging personal initiative, the Soviet Union appears to be moving in the opposite direction. One important indication is a new book by Soviet Economist Yevsei Liberman, whose earlier espousal of the profit motive and decentralized industrial management caused some experimentation with economic reform in the early 1960s. Liberman has now decided that free markets cannot function within a Communist society and are in fact "anti-Leninist...