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...canvas and the real life objecthood of the found elements are in a dialogue.”The second grouping features pieces that use more realistic strategies. These images pushed the boundaries by employing the realistic methods that the Soviets encouraged but with controversial subjects. For example, artist Boris Sveshnikov uses his work to portray the harsh reality of Soviet gulags in his Vetlosian series.The third and forth groupings are smaller and contain photographs from an artist inside the gulag as well as the art of various ethnic nationality groups. Boris Mikhailov’s image is one of Katsnelson?...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Davis Center Exhibits 'The Art of Subversion' | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...surrounded by besotted generals. The rest of the exhibit was thoroughly predictable: noble Lenins, fatherly Stalins, travel-poster vistas of sunny harvest fields, hefty milkmaids, stern-jawed Stakhanovite workers, a tired, heat-racked oldster peering into the furnace glow whose portrait was entitled Esteemed Old Steel Puddler F. I. Sveshnikov. (Not to be confused with Esteemed Steel Puddler of the Hammer and Sickle Works, M. G. Gusarov and His Brigade, which was also on display.) Only occasionally, beneath the pictures' painful precision and the dutiful glorification of the Soviet paradise, was there a glimpse of real feeling. Warmest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Red Realism | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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