Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist Paperback - 1998
by John Berger
In this prescient and beautifully written book, 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. This is a celebration of an art based on a heroic conception of the human will, an art that endeavors above all to be answerable to the world.
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In this book, 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 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 Khrushchev 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.
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- Title Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist
- Author John Berger
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage
- Date March 17, 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780679737278 / 0679737278
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.17 x 0.54 in (20.27 x 13.13 x 1.37 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Neizvestnyi, Ernst, Socialism and art - Soviet Union
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97008130
- Dewey Decimal Code 730.92
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- Library Journal, 06/01/1998, Page 169
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