Art and revolution : Ernst Neizvestny and the role of the artist in the U.S.S.R. /
Berger, John
Art and revolution : Ernst Neizvestny and the role of the artist in the U.S.S.R. / John Berger. - New York, NY : Pantheon Books, A Division of Random House, 1969. - 191 pages : 71 illustrations, 24 plates ; 20 cm.
Includes index.
No table of contents.
"In this prescient and beautifully written book, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his monumental and very public vision of art. But Berger’s impassioned account goes well beyond the specific dilemma of the pre-glasnost Russian artist to illuminate the very meaning of revolutionary art. In his struggle against official orthodoxy–which involved a face-to-face confrontation with Khruschev himself–Neizvestny was fighting not for a merely personal or aesthetic vision, but for a recognition of the true social role of art. His sculptures earn a place in the world by reflecting the courage of a whole people, by commemorating, in an age of mass suffering, the resistance and endurance of millions." -- from Penguin Random House website.
74525631
B69-05728
Neizvestnyĭ, Ėrnst, 1925-2016.
Socialism and art--Soviet Union.
Sculptors--Soviet Union
NB 699 .N4 / B4 1969
730/.924
Art and revolution : Ernst Neizvestny and the role of the artist in the U.S.S.R. / John Berger. - New York, NY : Pantheon Books, A Division of Random House, 1969. - 191 pages : 71 illustrations, 24 plates ; 20 cm.
Includes index.
No table of contents.
"In this prescient and beautifully written book, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his monumental and very public vision of art. But Berger’s impassioned account goes well beyond the specific dilemma of the pre-glasnost Russian artist to illuminate the very meaning of revolutionary art. In his struggle against official orthodoxy–which involved a face-to-face confrontation with Khruschev himself–Neizvestny was fighting not for a merely personal or aesthetic vision, but for a recognition of the true social role of art. His sculptures earn a place in the world by reflecting the courage of a whole people, by commemorating, in an age of mass suffering, the resistance and endurance of millions." -- from Penguin Random House website.
74525631
B69-05728
Neizvestnyĭ, Ėrnst, 1925-2016.
Socialism and art--Soviet Union.
Sculptors--Soviet Union
NB 699 .N4 / B4 1969
730/.924