Artistic Dissidents Flashcards
El Lissitzky
Created constructionist art that was abstract and Avant grade in the early 1920s.
Dziga Vertov
He was very experimental and made a series of documentaries called kino-pravda or ‘film-truth’. He was inspired by futurism but his films were so experimental they were branded ‘insane’, ‘puzzling’ and ‘laughable’ by Pravda.
Vertov’s ‘Three songs about Lenin’ a film which celebrated Lenin’s vison and barely mentioned Stalin at all!
Sergei Eisenstein
he too was very experimental with his work being heavily influenced by futurism and new abstract art. He was critiqued for his work being to difficult to understand for the working people.
Boris Patersnak
His ‘Dr Zhivago’ was banned until the late 1980s
Performed unorthodox poetry in 1946.
Alex Ginzuburg
From the late 1950s, people turned to the underground for art and culture and the samizdat movement saw a rise. Ginzubrug was the best known figure of of the samizdat movement circulating syntax which circulated the black market.
Nonna Goriunova
held a naked exhibition which promoted female beauty.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
wrote ‘One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich.’ literary works were critical of aspects Stalin’s governments and led to cultural restrictions. Again, the immense popularity of the book showed the anti-established sentiment in the USSR at the time
