On the ethics of the avant-garde. (Russian avant-garde's connection to the Bolshevik Revolution)

From: Art in America | Date: May 1, 1993| Author: Groys, Boris | Copyright information

Russian intellectuals look on the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s in a harsher light than Western art scholars do. They question the avant-garde movement's role in repressing other artists and the cultural elite during the Bolshevik regime of 1917 to 1921.

The author argues that the Russian avant-garde's alliance with the Bolshevik Revolution poses serious moral problems for contemporary art historians. Various strategies have emerged in Russia for disowning the move...

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