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Article: Soviet painting: in Stalin's debt. (Joseph Stalin, who banned western art in the Soviet Union) (Books and Art)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 28, 1989
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Soviet painting In Stalin's debt
FIFTY-seven years after Stalin banned modern western art from the Soviet Union, no fewer than four big shows selling contemporary Russian pictures will be staged in London this spring. The Institute of Contemporary Art is also running a public exhibition entitled "Novostroika" (new structures), featuring work by the most renowned of the present generation of Muscovite painters, Ilya Kabakov. A tonic, perhaps, for the world-weary artists of London; but glasnost and the West may not be quite so good for Russian painters.
Much of the power of Soviet avantgarde painting stems from the fact that "unofficial" artists such as Mr ...