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Article: From Russia, with daring and defiance.(Scene)
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- The Boston Herald
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- November 10, 2000
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Back in the U.S.S.R., where state policy dictated artistic style and scenes of happy workers abounded, Anatolii Slepyshev dared to paint an apocalyptic scene of the crucifixion. Vladimir Yankilvesky turned the nude forms of a man, a woman and a squiggly child into the drawing "Anatomy of Feelings." Semyon Faibisovich captured the numbing grayness of a woman seated on a commuter train. Leonid Sokov sculpted Lenin confronting a striding figure in the slender style of Giacometti.
Despite the threat of disapproval, censorship or worse, all these artists pursued their own visions. Sometimes publicly, but more often within the private confines of apartments and ...