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Unofficial Art of the 1970-s: Rise of the Pictorial Section of the Moscow Gorkom (City Committee) of Graphic Artists

https://doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2016-1-2-240-247

Abstract

The article is devoted to the creation of one of the most considerable organizations of unofficial art which arose on the initiative of the government officials. The genesis of organizational structures of unofficial art in the context of unofficial artistic life’s dynamics (residential exhibitions, underground galleries) and of political environment (international agreements signed by the USSR within the framework of the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1975) has never been considered as a separate issue. At the cusp of the 1960-s-1970-s, the concept of “New Moscow School” was formed, the School included certain unofficial artists of several generations, different in their creative directions; later most of them became members of the Pictorial Section at the Moscow Joint Committee of Graphic Artists (MOKHG). They participated in foreign and Moscow exhibitions of nonconformist art (Buldosernaya, Izmaylovsky, “Beekeeping”, “Recreation Center”). The activation of the underground art life coincided with certain political events, which resulted in foundation of the Pictorial Section.

About the Author

Anna K. Florkovskaya
V.I. Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute
Russian Federation


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Florkovskaya A.K. Unofficial Art of the 1970-s: Rise of the Pictorial Section of the Moscow Gorkom (City Committee) of Graphic Artists. Observatory of Culture. 2016;1(2):240-247. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2016-1-2-240-247

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