"In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 'trusty' prisoners – hardened criminals – and returned to Moscow an almost feral adolescent, fluent in obscene prison jargon but intellectually ignorant. Despite this dubious start he became a leading art historian and co-author (with his close ..."
"Totalitarian Art achieves nothing less than a thorough and serious comparative study of the official art of Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Mao’s China. In the Soviet Union, and later in Maoist China, theories of mass artistic appeal were used to promote the Revolution both at home and abroad. In Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy they asserted the putative grandeur of the epoch. All too often, art that served the ..."
"In this study of the art of Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, the author describes the way the avant-garde and modernistic movements of the early 20th century which sought to create new artistic forms of mass appeal, were quickly expropriated by dictatorial regimes. In the Soviet Union, and later in Maoist China, theories of mass artistic appeal were used to export the Revolution. In Nazi Germany and Italy they reflected ..."
Totalitarian Art(Reprint) In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and ThePeople's Republicof China by IgorGolomstock, Elizabeth Abbott, Robert Chandler Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2011 by Overlook Hardcover Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-4084-5, ISBN: 0-7156-4084-4
"Totalitarian Art achieves nothing less than a thorough and serious comparative study of the official art of Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In the Soviet Union, and later in Maoist China, theories of mass artistic appeal were used to promote the Revolution both at home and abroad. In Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy they asserted the putative grandeur of the epoch ..."
"Oleg Kudryashov born in Moscow in 1932. He became one of the leading graphic artists in Moscow in the 1960s, but finding himself alien to the official Soviet culture, emigrated to London in 1973 where he lived and worked there until 1998. He is the only famous Russian artist who chose to emigrate to Britain and after being discovered by Ronald Penrose rubbed shoulders with the likes of Peter Blake and Frances Hodgkins on equal footing. ..."
A Ransomed Dissident A Life in Art Under the Soviets by IgorGolomstock 280 Pages, Published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78673-449-5, ISBN: 1-78673-449-4
"I half-jokingly told my friends that I knew who the fourth man was: Sir Anthony
Blunt. The facts were as follows. Back in 1965 Yury Ovsyannikov, who was then
editor-in-chief for the publisher Iskusstvo, sent me a manuscript by Anthony Blunt
on ..."
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Totalitarian Art(1st Edition) In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and ThePeople's Republicof C hina by IgorGolomstock, Robert Chandler Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2011 by The Overlook Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59020-317-0, ISBN: 1-59020-317-8
"Totalitarian Art achieves nothing less than a thorough and serious comparative study of the official art of Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Mao’s China.Totalitarian Art achieves nothing less than a thorough and serious comparative study of the official art of Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Mao’s China. In the Soviet Union, and later in Maoist China, theories of mass artistic appeal we ..."