SOVIET ART OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY AS PART OF THE WORLD ART PROCESS: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTHER STUDIES
Journal: Вестник Пермского университета История
Year: 2022

The article examines writings on the history of art, in which artworks by Soviet artists are described not as a local phenomenon but in a global cultural context. These writings are combined into four blocks. The first block – “Socialist Internationalism” – explores papers by Soviet art historians written in the 1950s and 1960s and developed a conception of world “progressive art.” The second block – “Soviet Non-official art and Western art critic” – starts with analyzing the texts created in th