Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov was a Soviet politician. He was the Soviet Union's "propagandist-in-chief" after the Second World War, and was responsible for developing the Soviet cultural policy, the Zhdanov Doctrine, which remained in effect until the death of Joseph Stalin. Zhdanov was considered Stalin's most likely successor but died before him.
Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov was an American and Soviet conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, now Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. After emigrating to the United States he lived and worked on Long Island.
Soviet nonconformist art was Soviet art produced in the former Soviet Union outside the control of the Soviet state started in the Stalinist era, in particular, outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Other terms used to refer to this phenomenon are Soviet counterculture, "underground art" or "unofficial art".
Oleg Vassiliev was a Russian painter associated with the Soviet Nonconformist Art style. Vassiliev emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City in 1990 and later lived and worked in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky was a Russian painter and draughtsman of Jewish descent best known for his portrayals of Vladimir Lenin and other Soviet leaders, renowned as blueprint examples of the Socialist realist style.
Post-socialist art or post-communist art is a term used in analysis of art arriving from post-socialist (post-communist) countries taken as different in their nature from Western, Postmodern art.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Kaneev was a Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as a known representative of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his cityscapes of Leningrad and ancient Russian towns.
Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Igor Petrovich Veselkin was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, scenographer, stage designer, and art teacher, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, and regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Piotr Petrovich Belousov was a Soviet Ukrainian and Russian graphic artist, painter, art teacher, professor of the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, People's Artist of the USSR, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, being most famous for his portraits and historical paintings.
Soviet art is the visual art style produced after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the existence of the Soviet Union, until its collapse in 1991. The Russian Revolution led to an artistic and cultural shift within Russia and the Soviet Union as a whole, including a new focus on socialist realism in officially approved art.
The Leningrad School of Painting is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was united by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (1932–1991).
Anton Vidokle is an artist and founder of e-flux. Born in 1965, Vidokle lives in New York and Berlin.
The year 1969 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The year 1972 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
Pavel Pepperstein is a Russian artist and writer.
Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, Stalin Prize winner, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of Soviet Art, who played an important role in the formation of the Leningrad School of Painting. He is mostly known for his battle paintings.
Liu Ding is a Chinese artist and curator based in Beijing. Liu’s artistic practices range from installation, painting, photography, and theatre set design and production, whereas his professional skills vary from magazine editorial, television production, and curatorial work.
Georgy Kiesewalter is a Russian conceptual artist, photographer and essayist, working in different artistic areas from painting to graphic art, from installations to conceptual photography and digital art.
Keti Chukhrov is a philosopher, art-theorist and play-wright. She was an associate professor and then a professor at the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) in 2016-2022. Since 2022 she is a guest professor at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. In 2012-2017 she was the head of Theory and Research department at the National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow. In 2017-2019 she has been a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow in UK, Wolverhampton University. She has authored numerous texts on art theory, philosophy and cultural anthropology. Her latest book Practicing the Good. Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism deals with the impact of socialist political economy on the epistemes of historical socialism. Her full-length books include: To Be—To Perform. ‘Theatre’ in Philosophic Critique of Art, Pound &£, and a volume of dramatic poems: Merely Humans (2010). Her research interests and publications deal with 1. Philosophy of performativity 2. Impact of political economics on the epistemologies of capitalist and non-capitalist societies respectively. 3. Art as the Institute of global Contemporaneity. She authored the dramatic video-poems Afghan-Kuzminki (2013), Love-machines (2013), Communion (2016), Undead (2022) based on her plays and featured at the Bergen Assembly (2013), the Specters of Communism show, the Ljubljana Triennial U-3, Steirischer Herbst, the show “War in the Distance”.
