Soviet impressionist painting
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 8
Chapter 1 Discovery of Hidden Treasures 12
Chapter 2 Understanding Socialist Realist Art 24
Chapter 3 Naturalist Working-Class Tradition 1870s-1917 48
Chapter 4 Proto-Socialist Realism 1917-1932 58
Chapter 5 Class Enemies onthe Art Front 1918-1940s 72
Chapter 6 Development of Socialist Realism 1932-1941 78
Chapter 7 The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 86
Chapter 8 Early Working-Class Impressionism 1945-1953 92
Chapter 9 Working-Class Impressionism: 'The Thaw' 1953-1956 110
Chapter 10 Art of the Virgin Lands 1954-1964 130
Chapter 11 Working-Class Impressionism: 'The Second Thaw' 1957-1959 144
Chapter 12 Working-Class Impressionism 1960-1963 168
Chapter 13 Working-Class Impressionism 1964-1969 184
Chapter 14 Decline of Socialist Realism 1970-1984 198
Chapter 15 Demise of Socialist Realism 1985-1991 208
Chapter 16 Impressionism and the Severe Style 212
Chapter 17 From Plastov to the Tkachev Brothers 236
Chapter 18 Monumentalism & Etudisme 254
Chapter 19 Military and Art 264
Chapter 20 Propaganda Art 272
Chapter 21 Agriculture, Industry and Construction 290
Chapter 22 Lenin's Children 306
Chapter 23 Portraiture in the Soviet Union 332
Chapter 24 Naked Pravda 340
Chapter 25 Landscape & Still Life: Soviet `Tiny' Genre 348
Chapter 26 Art Education in the Soviet Union 374
Chapter 27 The Art Union & Official Artists 382
Chapter 28 `Unofficious' Official Art 390
Chapter 29 Coming Forth of Soviet Art 396
Conclusion 406
Chronology of Soviet Art 408
Glossary 425
Endnotes 434
Bibliography 445
List of Illustrations 451
Index 455
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