A Life in Art under the Soviets
Edición de la obra Ransomed Dissident
| Autor | Igor Golomstock, Sara Jolly, Boris Dralyuk, Robert Chandler |
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| Editorial | I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited |
| Fecha de publicación | 2019 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 288 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781788312950 |
| OCLC | 1024165272 |
| Número de Cutter | G627r |
In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 'trusty' prisoners - hardened criminals - and returned to Moscow an almost feral adolescent, fluent in obscene prison jargon but intellectually ignorant. Despite this dubious start he became a leading art historian and co-author (with his close friend Andrey Sinyavsky) of the first, deeply controversial, monograph on Picasso published in the Soviet Union. Here, Golomstock offers the reader a rare insight into what life was like as a quietly subversive art historian in the post-Stalin era.