Ransomed Dissident
A Life in Art under the Soviets
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Publication
2019 - I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Language
English
Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781788312950
- ISBN-101788312953
- OCLC Control Number1024165272
- Better World Books9781788312950
- Open LibraryOL28892173M
Classifications
- LCCDK268
- LCCDK268 .G6513 2019
Description
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.
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