One of the giant works that decorate Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. This depiction of cosmonauts by Baktykan Kabidoldanov and Nikolai Tsivchinskiy dates back to 1985. DANIL USMANOV FOR M LE ...
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FROM Soviet realism with a twist to portraits of American rap stars might seem something of a leap -- but not necessarily for Alexander Melamid. The Russian-born artist has often been interested in ...
The foundations of Russian socialist realism were provided by Nicholai G. Chernyshevsky (1828 - 1889), translator and critical commentator of John Stuart Mills’ Principles of Political Economy. An ...
Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture ...
Dedicated to modern and contemporary art, the new museum marks a bold chapter in Central Asia’s cultural landscape View on ...
Going into the large Komar & Melamid retrospective currently at the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers, I already knew the wily, proto-postmodern art style that this artist duo brought with them when they ...
From Soviet realism with a twist to portraits of American rap stars might seem something of a leap -- but not necessarily for Alexander Melamid. The Russian-born artist has often been interested in ...
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