Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Titled "Russia, The Land, the People: Russian Painting 1850-1910," the exhibit of 62 realist late-19th century Russian paintings is one of 13 cultural, educational and scientific exchanges between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, resulting from November summit meetings between President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev, United States Information Agency (USIA) officials announced this week...
...These cultural exchanges have no politicalvalue," said Richard Pipes, Baird Professor ofHistory. "They always try to put themselvesforward as a peaceful nation, and this createsgood will, but it will have no effect on theirconduct. Russian art is very nice, but Russia isstill in Afghanistan, they still keep Sakharov...
...ever made a stronger case for the quality of futurist art or gone into more detail about its roots. Futurism was the most influential art movement Italy produced in the early 20th century. Indeed, the word futurist became synonymous with modernity itself to people in America, England and Russia until around 1925. The movement took an aggressively internationalist stance, looking to a future world unified by technology. Yet its rhetoric was bedded deep in Italian life. The core of the futurist group, which coalesced in the early 1900s, was made up of the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Giacomo Balla...
...chief interest was the Soviet Union, and he had more experience dealing with that country than any other American in history. His first visit to Russia was in 1899, during the reign of Czar Nicholas II, when he accompanied his father on an expedition that reached Siberia. His last was in 1983, at the invitation of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. In between he negotiated his own private mineral concessions with Trotsky and spent more time with Stalin than any other American. Nikita Khrushchev liked the old capitalist so much that he jokingly offered...
...icon itself, though valuable, is merely the box that contains the MacGuffin, an astonishing and unsuspected 19th century document. It seems that in 1867, when the world thought that Russia had sold a certain large piece of real estate to a young Western power for $7 million, what was really signed (and nicknamed Seward's folly) was only a 99-year lease. A crucial clause allows the Soviet Union to reclaim its property by paying a large sum in gold before the lease expires. Brezhnev, a stonehearted landlord, rubs his hands and plots eviction. Will Scott and the female bass...