Валентин Дьяконов Valentin Dyakonov

Дьяконов_фото1Art historian, art-critic, curator of exhibitions, PhD in Cultural Studies, curator of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, an art critic for the newspaper Kommersant. Since 1998, contributes to specialized art magazines (New World of Art, ArtChronika, ArtGuide, Frieze). Among his well-known curatorial projects are “Slava Avenue”: Important Encounters (XL Gallery), retrospective exhibition for the anniversary of the Perm State Art Gallery, “Detective” at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Moscow Art Scene in the 1950–1960s. The Birth of Underground Art.

Manuscript. M., 2016.

The subject of this work is the changes in the artistic life and art of the USSR during the “thaw”. Special attention is paid to the socio-historical aspects of the birth of the phenomenon of unofficial art, which is largely a consequence of the changed vectors of the ideological and social policies of the Soviet state. At the same time, the focus is on conservative phenomena that continued the line of development of Soviet art of the 1930s-50s. In the field of art, the focus is on painting, graphics, arts and crafts.

The actuality of the work consists in a detailed study of the processes occurring on several levels of the Soviet artistic hierarchy, in comparison with previous historical periods, in particular, with the pre-revolutionary era of the flowering of avant-garde art and with the art of the Socialist Realism (1930s-50s).


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